Currency (disambiguation)
A currency is a particular authorized monetary system, monetized in specific units (e.g., euros, dollars, pesos, etc.) which may be given international value by their exchange values in foreign exchange.
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Currency may also refer to:
Economics and finance
Currency, in economics, may refer to:
- Banknotes, the paper or non-metal circulating medium of exchange of a country
- Banknotes and coins, all circulating media of exchange of a particular government
- Money, any generally accepted medium of exchange, including non-physical media
Some types of currency include:
- Complementary currency (or alternative currency), a currency or medium of exchange which is not a national currency (i.e., not legal tender), but which is thought of as supplementing or complementing national currencies
- Cryptocurrency (or crypto currency), a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional units, and to verify the transfer of asset
- Digital currency (or digital money or electronic currency or electronic money), a type of currency available only in digital, not physical, form (such as banknotes and coins)
- Fiat currency or fiat money, a currency without intrinsic value established as money, often by government regulation
- Virtual currency (or virtual money), a type of unregulated, digital money, which is issued and usually controlled by its developers, and used and accepted among the members of a specific virtual community
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Currency (album), an album by the rapper Lil' Keke
- Currency (film), a 2009 Malayalam film by Swathy Bhaskar
- Currency, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group
Other uses
- Currency (typography), a character used to denote a currency
- Currency lads and lasses, colonial-born Australians
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Currency
- Currensy (born 1981), American rapper
- Currence, Dutch payment organization
- Monopoly money
- Play money
- Scrip
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