Currency
The practice of using "Crown"/"Krone" as the name of a currency developed from coins often bearing the picture of a monarch. However, the name is currently used also for the currency of republics.
- Norwegian krone, the currency of Norway
- Danish krone, the currency of Denmark
- Icelandic króna, the currency of Iceland
- Swedish krona, the currency of Sweden
- Estonian kroon, the pre-Euro currency of Estonia
- Austro-Hungarian krone, the currency of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1892
- Yugoslav krone, a currency of the former Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
- Fiume Krone, currency of the City of Fiume (1919–1920), succeeded by Italian Lira
Currencies that also mean crown:
- Czech koruna, the currency of the Czech Republic
- Slovak koruna, the pre-Euro currency of Slovakia
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Famous quotes containing the word currency:
“There is no legislation—I care not what it is—tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Both of us felt more anxiety about the South—about the colored people especially—than about anything else sinister in the result. My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)