How much money?As a rule, to answer this question, one calculates how much he will be able to buy for a particular amount.Roughly speaking, if the ten rubles you can buy one tomato, the bill nominal value of ten rubles worth just one tomato.So say the ordinary people.
But in fact, the value of the currency is determined by how much it costs in terms of other money.Today, most world currencies pegged to the dollar, but not "American" has the honorary title of "most expensive currency in the world."Then who?Eastern countries, where oil - the main source of income, leading in the ranking of "most expensive currency".And this is natural, because the country where the highest standard of living and the greatest number of millionaires "per square meter" just can not have a cheap currency.
For example, Kuwait, which for many years officially recognized as a country whose national money - the most expensive currency in the number of millionaires is superior to any other country in the world.Attention every fifteenth citizen of this country - a millionaire!
national currency called the Kuwaiti dinar Kuwait.Today, its rate against the dollar is 1 = 3.5, the euro - 1 = 2.7 and rubles per one dinar Kuwait can buy almost 109.
way, the currency of Kuwait - the most expensive currency of the world for several decades.So, in '84 the last century for one dinar could be bought 3.28 US dollars, or 2.79 rubles USSR.And there was in use a modern Kuwaiti national currency in 1961.Kuwaiti dinar replaced the Indian rupee, which has been in circulation in the country in previous years.
Once Kuwait made a revaluation of its currency against the dollar by one percent.This happened in 2006.And in the next, in 2007 the Kuwaiti dinar exchange rate, rather than the US dollar, tied to a multi-currency basket.Since then, its value only increases.Interestingly, the Kuwaiti dinar banknotes printed on plastic.
in the rating of "most expensive currency" second and third place also belong to the eastern states, where the money is, figuratively speaking, "smell" of oil.This Bahraini Dinar, which was also in use in the United Arab Emirates 1966-1973 years (until he was succeeded by the United Arab Emirates dirham) and money eastern Oman.The authorities of the countries that are in the Persian Gulf, in the near future plan to introduce a single national currency.Its name is not yet known.
In Europe, the most expensive currency, oddly enough, the Latvian lat.This currency has been in use in Latvia before the war, in 1922 - 1940 years.Returned Latvian lats in purses of its citizens in 1993, after independence.
fifth place among the most expensive currencies in the world currency takes the UK - a well-known British pound.The first pound Bank of England released in 1694.For two centuries, the pound had the status of the main reserve currency in almost all over the world.But after World War II the United States came to dominate the money.Today, the US dollar is gradually losing its primacy.What currency will dominate the planet in twenty years - time will tell.
