From Dollars to Dinars: The World Currency Quiz

Krona is Swedish for "crown."

It takes 100 kopeks to make one ruble.

All four countries and many others are part of the European Union and share a common currency, the euro.

The $2 coins are called toonies, which is a play on the loonie, the $1 coin that features a loon.

Ukraine adopted the hryvnia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Ataturk was the first president of Turkey.

France used francs as far back as the 1300s. The franc was reintroduced in 1795.

In 1934 the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing issued several $100,000 gold certificate bills, intended only for use by federal reserve banks when they had to transfer large amounts of money between themselves. They were not available for public use, and electronic banking quickly rendered them obsolete.

The resplendent quetzal is a bright green and red bird.

The nineteen members of the eurozone, as well as Montenegro, Kosovo, Vatican City, Monaco, San Marino and Andorra, use the euro.

In 2000 Ecuador converted from its own currency to the U.S. dollar. It mints its own coins, identical in value to their equivalent U.S. coins, but it does not issue paper currency.

Originating in eastern Europe, silver coins called thalers (from Joachimsthal, Germany, the town where the silver was mined) were used throughout Europe in the 16th through 19th centuries. Variations on the word thaler, including dollar, live on as the names of several world currencies.

Although poor currency control, the Taliban takeover and the war in Afghanistan made the country's currency situation chaotic, the afghani currently seems to have stabilized.

The cordoba is Nicaragua's currency.

The British pound sterling is the world's oldest currency still in use.

The IMF issues special drawing rights, also known as SDRs, to nations directly, so they aren't a currency that private individuals or companies can use.

Morocco also uses the dirham.

The new shekel (now just called the shekel) was worth 1,000 of the devalued old shekels when it was introduced in 1986.

The Jamaican currency is called the dollar, although it is a separate currency from the U.S. dollar.

Massive inflation in Hungary after World War II led to the printing of a bill worth 100 quintillion pengo. It had a value of about $0.20 at the time.

The 100,000 peso note is probably the largest paper currency ever issued, in terms of its physical size.

Gold-backed money is essentially an IOU from the government, exchangeable for real gold held in reserve. Almost no currency in the world today is gold-backed.

The yuan is the primary unit of Chinese currency, also known as renminbi. Japan's yen uses the same symbol.

A Polish zloty is made up of 100 groszy.

The symbol for the euro is €.

According to the Guinness World Records book, Queen Elizabeth II "appears on the coinage of at least 35 different countries — more countries than any other living monarch."

Martha Washington (wife of George) appeared on the front of a $1 silver certificate first printed in 1886. As of 2016, women have appeared on paper U.S. currency since then.

Zaire cut out Mobutu's image, then went on using the old currency until they were able to establish a new one.

The won has been the official currency of South Korea since 1962.

The symbol for the Indian rupee was created in 2010 through a nationwide design competition.