East Caribbean dollar
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1 East Caribbean Dollar coin
The East Caribbean dollar is the currency of eight political units in the Caribbean Sea. Six of these are independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Two are United Kingdom overseas territories: Anguilla and Montserrat.
The East Caribbean dollar is issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank based in Saint Kitts and Nevis. The bank was established by an agreement (the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Agreement) signed at Port-of-Spain on July 5 1983, as successor to the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority. The currency is a successor to the West Indies dollar used by the extinct West Indies Federation.
The ISO 4217 currency code for the East Caribbean dollar is XCD.
Exchange rate: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per USD $1 – 2.7000 (fixed rate since 1976)
Coins in circulation
- 1 cent
- 2 cent
- 5 cent
- 10 cent
- 25 cent
- 1 dollar
Banknotes in circulation
- $5
- $10
- $20
- $50
- $100
Current XCD exchange rates
AUD | CAD | EUR | GBP | INR | NZD | USD
External links
| Currencies of The Americas | |
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| North | Bermuda dollar | Canadian dollar | Danish krone (Greenland) | Euro (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon) | Mexican peso | US dollar |
| Central | Belize dollar | Costa Rican colón | Salvadoran colón | Guatemalan quetzal | Honduran lempira | Nicaraguan córdoba | Panamanian balboa |
| Caribbean | Aruban florin | Bahamian dollar | Barbadian dollar | Cayman dollar | Cuban peso | Dominican peso | East Caribbean dollar | Euro (Guadeloupe, Martinique) | Haitian gourde | Jamaican dollar | Netherlands Antilles florin | Trinidad and Tobago dollar |
| South | Argentine peso | Bolivian boliviano | Brazilian real | Chilean peso | Colombian peso | Euro (French Guiana) | Falkland pound | Guyanese dollar | Paraguayan guaraní | Peruvian nuevo sol | Suriname dollar | Uruguayan peso | Venezuelan bolívar
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