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Which nation revalued its currency by dropping three zeros to create the new lira in 2005?

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Which African country experienced a one hundred trillion dollar banknote during hyperinflation?

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What is the currency of Japan?

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Which security feature on the euro called the Motion stripe was pioneered by a German firm?

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Who said A penny saved is a penny earned often linked to money wisdom?

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What metal are modern US pennies primarily made from since 1982?

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Which German city gave its name to the thaler coin that influenced the word dollar?

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Which island nation issued the Rai stone money famous for giant carved discs?

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What color is the US ten dollar note dominant shade?

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Who painted Dollar Sign series in 1981 turning the symbol into pop art?

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What year did Sweden issue the earliest known paper note by Stockholms Banco?

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What is the British slang for a five pound note?

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Which image is hidden on US twenty dollar bills under ultraviolet light?

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What is the smallest unit of Bitcoin?

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Which US bill first added a portrait watermark as a standard feature in 1996?

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Which currency symbol looks like a stylized L with a bar used by the United Kingdom?

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Which US note features the Treasury building on the reverse?

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Which US program added color shifting ink to notes beginning in 1996?

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Which Ottoman gold coin was called the sultani based on the Venetian ducat weight?

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What is the currency of the United Kingdom?

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Which sea animal appears on the Canadian two dollar coin introduced in 1996?

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Which credit card launched the first universal travel and entertainment card in 1958?

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What precise diameter in millimeters does a Morgan dollar have?

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Which rapper released Mo Money Mo Problems in 1997?

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Which country uses the peso with a sun symbol on many coins?

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Which Japanese era banknote series is called series C from nineteen fifty seven?

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What is the name of the first US coin to feature a woman in 1979?

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Which British note series introduced synthetic polymer for the five pound in 2016?

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Which nation issued the first circulating bimetal coin in the modern era year nineteen eighty two?

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Which country uses the rupee with Mahatma Gandhi on notes?

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What is the standard three letter code for the United States dollar?

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Which Asian currency uses the ringgit name meaning jagged edged?

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Which French assignat note carried interest at three percent during the early issues?

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Which United States note series first featured colorized small security threads by denomination?

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Which movie features the line Show me the money spoken by Rod Tidwell in 1996?

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Which Mexican silver coin is famed for the Winged Victory design introduced in 1982?

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Who wrote the 1976 hit Money Money Money?

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What do the letters PIN stand for in banking access?

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Which US face is on the one dollar bill since 1929?

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Which US coin used the Gobrecht design with a soaring eagle in the early eighteen thirties?

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Which billionaire authored The Snowball biography subject of 2008 by Alice Schroeder?

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What animal appears on the Australian one dollar coin?

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Which city hosts Wall Street the historic financial district?

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Which US law created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1933?

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Which British gold coin weighs precisely seven point nine eight grams standard?

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Which US note features Alexander Hamilton and debuted in the small size in 1929?

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Who founded the Rothschild banking dynasty with a Frankfurt firm in the seventeen nineties?

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Which kingdom minted the gold stater widely in the time of Philip the Second?

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Which South American country uses the real with code BRL since 1994?

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Which country prints the Swiss franc known for vertical banknotes since 2016?

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Which country phased out its penny coin in 2013 with cash transactions rounded?

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Which company slogan is What is in your wallet connected to credit cards?

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Which Latin legend appears on many US coins meaning Out of many one?

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Which index of US money supply was discontinued in 2006 leaving M1 and M2 as standards?

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Which Act in the United Kingdom decimalized the currency effective fifteen February 1971?

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Which mint mark letter appears on Carson City silver dollars from the nineteenth century?

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What is the common slang for a hundred dollars in the United States?

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What is the US central bank called?

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Which Caribbean country uses the dollar with a flying fish on coins?

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Which US fractional currency note carried the portrait of Spencer Clark causing controversy?

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Which nation issued the first commemorative circulating two pound coin in 1997?

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Which city hosts the Bank for International Settlements founded in 1930?

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Which London building housed the Royal Mint for centuries by the Tower?

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Which English tally stick reform culminated in the 1834 burning that caused a fire at Parliament?

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Which company prints US paper money?

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What exact redemption price per ounce ended formal US gold convertibility on August fifteen 1971?

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In Monopoly what is the salary for passing Go in the classic rules?

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Which Roman emperor introduced the gold solidus around year three hundred fourteen?

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Which hip hop track opened with I got my mind on my money in 1994?

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Which sanctuary city of finance is home to the Nikkei index trading floor?

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Which European currency launched as an accounting unit in 1999?

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Which African country uses the rand with code ZAR?

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Which metal gave the pound sterling its name?

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Which country switched from the mark to the euro in 2002 with public cash changeover?

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What year did the US abandon the gold standard for domestic convertibility under Franklin Roosevelt?

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Which famous economist wrote The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money in 1936?

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Which Japanese note introduced Hokusai art on the fifty in the year two thousand four?

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Which early credit card network used the slogan Do not leave home without it?

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Which nation issued the first modern polymer banknote for general circulation in 1992?

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Which Chinese dynasty issued flying cash promissory notes used by merchants?

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Which city minted the ancient tetradrachm with Athena and owl that became a classical trade coin?

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Which Qing era coin bore the inscription Board of Revenue in Manchu script?

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Which act created the United States Mint in Philadelphia in the eighteenth century?

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What was the initial market price of Bitcoin on the first widely known exchange in 2010?

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Which famous painting shows a stack of dollar bills flying title One Dollar Bill series 1962?

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Which Japanese coin uses a hole and is made of brass with a rice stalk design?

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Which company created Apple Pay in 2014?

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Which city hosted the first central bank Banco di San Giorgio founded in 1407 by that name?

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What is the exact fineness of the American Silver Eagle bullion coin?

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What phrase appears on US coins since the Civil War era?

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Which Scottish bank retains the right to issue notes backed by Bank of England deposits?

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Who authored Rich Dad Poor Dad first published in 1997?

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Which country first used paper money widely during the Song dynasty around the year 1020?

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What do ATMs stand for in banking?

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What year did the first US credit card with magnetic stripe appear?

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Which French gold coin at twenty francs used the Latin Monetary Union standard of six point four five grams gross?

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Which European nation places blind readable raised lines on the five euro note?

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Which Chinese banknote printer created the complex ten yuan 1914 Junk design?

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Which coin is nicknamed a nickel in the United States?

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Which book by Adam Smith published in 1776 shaped ideas about markets and money?

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Which country issues banknotes with transparent windows called polymer notes widely since 1992?

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Which symbol denotes the euro currency?

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Which Ottoman coin was worth one fortieth of a kurus in the eighteenth century?

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Which city houses the museum with the earliest complete banknote from China circa seven hundred forty?

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Which country introduced the Weimar hyperinflation one trillion mark note in 1923?

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Which artist sang She Works Hard for the Money in 1983?

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Which US coin introduced in 1938 features Monticello on the reverse?

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What was the title of the Pink Floyd track with cash register sounds in 1973?

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Which city introduced the first public bank giro system Banco della Piazza di Rialto in 1587?

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Which British two shilling coin equal to one tenth of a pound was called a florin?

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What is the face value of the large US coin nicknamed the cartwheel minted in 1878?

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Which city hosted the first stock exchange to trade shares of the Dutch East India Company in 1602?

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What device verifies cash at retail by viewing ultraviolet features?

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Which precious metal is denoted by the code XAU in markets?

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Which English gold coin of the seventeenth century bore a ship on the reverse type?

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Which bank pioneered the chip and pin card in the United Kingdom during two thousand three pilot?

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What exact gold content did the US Double Eagle contain in troy ounces?

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Which Italian city began large scale bill of exchange use among Lombard bankers in the thirteenth century?

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Which US coinage act created the dollar and cent system in 1792?

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Which US emergency currency issued in 1890 was printed on distinctive brown backs?

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Which British monarch appears on the first portrait series of decimal coins from 1968?

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