Money and Currencies

What this quiz asks

• Whose portrait appears on the US $100 bill?
• In which year did euro banknotes and coins go into circulation?
• The first known coins were made in the kingdom of Lydia, in what is now which country?
• Every euro coin has one side that is the same in all countries and one side with a national design.
• Which country was the first to use paper money?
• Which small shells were used as money for centuries across Africa, South Asia and China?
• Select ALL of these currencies that were replaced by the euro.
• The rand is the currency of which country?
• Did Zimbabwe issue a banknote worth 100 trillion dollars?
• Before decimalisation in 1971, how many pence made up one British pound?
• Which scientist was chosen for the Bank of England's polymer £50 note, released in 2021?
• Euro banknotes show real, recognisable buildings from the member countries.
• The symbol ₹, adopted in 2010, stands for which currency?
• Order these currencies by when they were first introduced, oldest first.
• Which currency did Brazil launch in 1994 to bring runaway inflation under control?
• In 1988, which country became the first to put a polymer (plastic) banknote into general circulation?
• Select ALL of these currency names that come from a word for a weight.
• The words "money" and "mint" come from a title of which Roman goddess, near whose temple coins were made?
• The word "dollar" comes from the thaler, a silver coin first minted in the 1500s in what is now which country?
• Who became the first living Roman to have his portrait placed on coins, in 44 BC?