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The franc (sign: Fr.

or SFr.

or FS; French and Romansh: franc,; code: CHF) is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) issues banknotes and the federal mint Swissmint issues coins.

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP [Great Britain Pound]), commonly known as the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

It is subdivided into 100 pence (singular: penny, abbreviated: p).

A number of nations that do not use sterling also have currencies called the pound.

At various times, the pound sterling was commodity money or bank notes backed by silver or gold, but it is currently fiat money, backed only by the economy in the areas where it is accepted.

The pound sterling is the world's oldest currency still in use and which has been in continuous use since its inception.

In finance, an exchange rate (also known as a foreign-exchange rate, forex rate, ER, FX rate or Agio) between two currencies is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another.

It is also regarded as the value of one country’s currency in relation to another currency.

For example, an interbank exchange rate of 119 Japanese yen (JPY, ¥) to the United States dollar (US$) means that ¥119 will be exchanged for each US$1 or that US$1 will be exchanged for each ¥119.

In this case it is said that the price of a dollar in relation to yen is ¥119, or equivalently that the price of a yen in relation to dollars is $1/119.

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution.

It is divided into 100 smaller cent (¢) units.

The circulating paper money consists of Federal Reserve Notes that are denominated in United States dollars.

The virtual world Second Life has its own economy and a currency referred to as Linden Dollars (L$).

In the SL economy, users (called "residents") buy from and sell to one another directly, using the Linden, which is exchangeable for US dollars or other currencies on market-based currency exchanges.

This economy is independent of the price of the game, which users pay to Linden Lab, not to each other.

Linden Lab reports that the Second Life economy generated US$3,596,674 in economic activity during the month of September 2005, and as of September 2006 Second Life was reported to have a GDP of $64 Million.