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CRC - Costa Rican Colón (₡)

Costa Rican Colón

The Costa Rican Colon (CRC) is the currency of Costa Rica. The symbol for the Colon is ₡; the currency is subdivided into 100 centimos. Many places in Costa Rica accept the US Dollar unofficially. The name of the Colon is derived from the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus (Cristobal Colon in Spanish).

The Costa Rican Colon is the currency in Costa Rica (CR, CRI). The symbol for CRC can be written C. The Costa Rican Colon is divided into 100 centimos. The exchange rate for the Costa Rican Colon was last updated on May 24, 2019 from Yahoo Finance. The CRC conversion factor has 5 significant digits.

Economy

• Costa Rica’s main income is from agriculture, tourism, and electronics.
• The service industry accounts for 68% of the country’s GDP.
• The main industries are textiles, clothing, plastic products, food processing, fertilizer, microprocessors, construction material, and medical equipment.
• Export products are coffee, bananas, sugar, seafood, medical equipment, ornamental plants, electronics, and pineapples.
• Import products are consumer goods, petroleum, raw as well as construction materials, and capital equipment.
• The unemployment rate is 7.8%.
• GDP growth is currently ~-1%.

History

• In 1896, the Costa Rican Peso was replaced by the Costa Rican Colon.
• In 1897, new coins were issued.
• Between 1917 and 1919, a subunit, the centavo, was introduced at 1/100 of a Colon. The country issued 5 centavos and 10 centavos in place of centimos. During that time 50 centavo coins were minted but never distributed.
• From 1914 to 1938, the International Bank of Costa Rica issued and distributed 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Colones notes. In the same period the National Bank of Costa Rica became the official bank for issuing paper money; they printed notes from 1937 to 1949.
• During the 1950s the Central Bank of Costa Rica started issuing banknotes.
• In 1958, the Central Bank added 1,000 colon notes to the range.
• In 2010, Costa Rican Colon notes were replaced by a new issue.

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GMD - Gambian Dalasi (GMD)

Gambian Dalasi

The Gambian Dalasi is the official currency for Gambia, a country in West Africa. It is the smallest country in Africa, surrounded by Senegal, except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. The Gambia River, the nation's namesake, flows through the country's centre and before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. The country has an area of almost 10,500 km² with an estimated population of 1,700,000.

The Gambian Dalasi is the currency in Gambia (GM, GMB). The Gambian Dalasi is also known as Dalasis. The symbol for GMD can be written D. The Gambian Dalasi is divided into 100 butut. The exchange rate for the Gambian Dalasi was last updated on May 24, 2019 from Yahoo Finance. The GMD conversion factor has 4 significant digits.

Economy

• Gambia has a liberal market economy characterized by traditional subsistence agriculture, with an historical dependence of groundnuts (peanuts) for export earnings.
• There is a re-export trade based on the country’s sea port, its low import duties, a minimum of administrative procedures, a fluctuating exchange rate, and lack of exchange controls.
• Tourism has become a fast-growing sector of the economy, contributing 12% of the country's GDP according to a government web site.
• The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund provide differing figures for GDP in 2009: USD $ 733m and $ 968m respectively.
• Agriculture accounts for approximately 30% of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs about 70% of the workforce. Within agriculture, peanut production accounts for 6.9% of GDP, 8.3% for other crops, livestock 5.3%, 1.8% for fisheries, and forestry at 0.5%.
• Limited production output is mainly based on agricultural products (e.g., peanut processing, bakeries, a brewery and a tannery).

History

• The Gambian Dalasi is subdivided into 100 bututs.
• The Dalasi was adopted in 1971. It replaced the Gambian Pound at a rate of 1 Pound = 5 Dalasi. In 1971, coins in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 bututs and 1 Gambian Dalasi were introduced. These coins used design elements from the previous coins denominated in shillings.
• 1 dalasi notes were issued between 1971 and 1987. New 1 dalasi coins were introduced in 1987, modeled on the 50 pence coin of the United Kingdom.
• Only 25 and 50 bututs and 1 dalasi coins are currently in circulation; they are of the 1998 issue which also included 1, 5 and 10 bututs coins.
• Banknotes currently in circulation are 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 Gambian Dalasi. Current banknotes were issued in 1996 and reprinted in 2001.

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