Currency

A currency (from Middle English: curraunt, "in circulation", from Latin: currens, -entis) in the most specific use of the word refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation. Under this definition, British pounds, U.S. dollars, and European euros are examples of currency. These various currencies are recognized stores of value, and are traded between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies. Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.

Other definitions of the term "currency" are discussed in their respective synonymous articles banknote, coin, and money. The latter definition, pertaining to the currency systems of nations, is the topic of this article. Currencies can be classified into two monetary systems: fiat money and commodity money, depending on what guarantees the value (the economy at large vs. the government's physical metal reserves). Some currencies are legal tender in certain political jurisdictions, which means they cannot be refused as payment for debt. Others are simply traded for their economic value. Digital currency has arisen with the popularity of computers and the Internet.

Currency (disambiguation)

Currency in economics may refer to:

  • Currency, the paper or non-metal circulating medium of exchange of a country, banknotes
  • Currency, all circulating media of exchange of a particular government, both banknotes and coin
  • Currency, may refer to any generally accepted medium of exchange, including non-physical media, thus used as synonym for money
  • Currency may refer to a particular authorized monetary system, monetized in specific units (euros, dollars, pesos, etc.) which may be given international value by their exchange values in foreign exchange
  • Currency may also refer to:

  • Currency (album), an album by the rapper Lil' Keke
  • Currency (film), a 2009 Malayalam film by Swathy Bhaskar
  • Currency (lads and lasses), colonial-born Australians
  • Currency Magazine, a monthly magazine covering hip-hop music, fashion, and culture
  • Currency (typography), character used to denote a currency
  • Currensy (born 1981), American rapper
  • See also

  • All pages beginning with "Currency"
  • Fictional universe of Harry Potter

    The fictional universe of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels comprises two distinct societies: the wizarding world and the Muggle world. The Muggle World is the series' name for the world inhabited by the non-magical majority, with which the wizarding world exists coextensively, albeit mostly remaining hidden from the non-magical humans. The plot of the series is set in 1990s Britain, but in a veiled and separate shadow society wherein magic is commonly used and practiced, and those who can use it live in self-enforced seclusion, hiding their abilities from the rest of the world. The term "wizarding world" refers to the global wizard community that lives hidden in parallel with the Muggle world; the different terms refer to different communities within the same area rather than separate planets or worlds.

    Fundamentals

    The entire Harry Potter series is set from 1991 to 1998 aside from the opening chapter of the first book, which takes place on 1 November 1981, and the epilogue of the seventh book, which takes place on 1 September 2017. The depiction of the wizarding world is centred on magic, which not only imbues objects such as wands, but is portrayed as an inborn ability. It is also centred on the separation of the wizarding world from the non-wizarding, or Muggle world. Despite being an inherent talent, magic is honed through study and training into a skill.

    Podcasts:

    Curren$y

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    Currency

    by: Trina

    Featuring: Lil' Wayne, Rick Ross
    [Chorus:]
    They know what we want, give it to us [x4]
    Twenty, tens, n fives (carots)
    If you a balla than a hundred's gon' fly
    That's what I'm talkin bout
    Stacks to the sky
    We gon' twenty, tens, n fives [x2]
    [Verse: Rick Ross]
    I'm not a five dolla nigga, I'm a billion dollar entity
    All I chase is money only bad bitches interest me
    Dade County nigga, diamonds come from Tiffany's
    Bought the prototype n they hit the streets eventually
    Toss my dolla bills, toss my dolla bills
    All I ever wanna do, toss my dolla bills
    All they talkin cease, u could hear the breeze
    When the bitches realizin that I'm throwin hun' beefs
    [Verse: Trina]
    Twenty, fifty, hundredes on my bed I think I'll pay but
    Pillows made of thousand dollar bills can you wait
    Million dollar carpet, then I'll fuck it, keep the change
    I keep a lenin closet of some fresh, she said what's his name
    I got Mr. Willdrow Wilsons hit the stocket stange
    And they know what I want, they sit the money for I came
    Spend it on the chain blow it all at the bar
    Weezy baby comin deep, this is Trina rockstarr
    [Verse: Lil Wayne]
    Man all I got is hundreds, I ain't even stuntin
    Stuck on the bendges like Benjamin Button
    Trina what it do, I ain't seen ya in a minute
    But I think about my life but thank God that u was in it
    Hello Weezy Baby, aka payday, twenty, tens, fives
    I give that shit to nana, young money boss, cash money G




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