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Currency
2002 The Euro becomes the official currency for most of Europe

1990 German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency

1990 West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st

1980 Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens

1966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps

1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold

1957 German Dem Rep recalls East Mark and issues new currency

1955 Congress authorizes all U.S. currency to say "In God We Trust"

1952 Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted

1929 U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency

1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910

1910 Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent

1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System

1900 U.S. currency goes on gold standard

1892 Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms

1871 The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada

1871 Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, and mills

1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress

1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act

1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

1862 Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln

1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000

1858 Canada begins using decimal currency system

1857 England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system

1857 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in U.S.

1785 Congress resolves U.S. currency named "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage

1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta

1775 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

1775 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania issues paper currency for 1st time

1762 Austria uses 1st paper currency

1596 King Philip II devalues Spanish currency

1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency



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