Danmark förkortning dk
The krone Danish: [ˈkʰʁoːnə] ; plural: kroner ; sign : kr. The currency is sometimes referred to as the Danish crown in English , since krone literally means crown. Krone coins have been minted in Denmark since the 17th century. One krone is subdivided into øre Danish pronunciation: [ˈøːɐ] ; singular and plural , the name øre is probably derived from the Latin word for gold.
Formerly there were more øre coins, but those were discontinued due to inflation.
Danmarks landsnummer
Adoption of the euro is favoured by some of the major political parties; however, a referendum on joining the Eurozone was defeated with The oldest known Danish coin is a penny penning struck AD —, [ 6 ] but the earliest systematic minting produced the so-called korsmønter lit. Danish coinage was generally based on the Carolingian silver standard , with 12 penning to a skilling and 20 skilling to a pound; later on, 16 skilling to a mark.
Taxes were sometimes imposed via the coinage, such as by the compulsory substitution of coins handed in by new coins handed out with a lower silver content. Danish currency was overhauled several times in attempts to restore public trust in the coins, and later issued in paper money.
Landskod Danmark (Tfn: +45, ISO: DK)
Several different currency systems have been used by Denmark from the 16th to 19th centuries. The krone lit. The modern-day krone was introduced as the currency of Denmark in January The latter part of the 18th century and much of the 19th century saw expanding economic activity and thus also a need for means of payment that were easier to handle than coins. Consequently, banknotes were increasingly used instead of coins.
The introduction of the new krone was a result of the Scandinavian Monetary Union , which came into effect in with the coins being adopted two years later and lasted until World War I. The Scandinavian Monetary Union came to an end in when the gold standard was abandoned. Denmark, Sweden and Norway all decided to keep the names of their respective and now separate currencies.
Denmark returned to the gold standard in but left it permanently in Between and , the krone was tied to the German Reichsmark.
Landkode till Danmark
Following the end of the German occupation, a rate of 24 kroner to the British pound was introduced, reduced to Within the Bretton Woods System , Denmark devalued its currency with the pound in to a rate of 6. A further devaluation in resulted in rates of 7. The Danish krone was minted by the Royal Mint of Denmark and banknotes were printed by the Danish National Bank until , when the mint was made a subsidiary of the National Bank.
In , it was decided to stop minting and printing of the krone in Denmark, but the work would be outsourced, and on 20 December , the last notes were printed by the National Bank.
Landskod för världens alla länder
Denmark has not introduced the euro , following a rejection by referendum in , but the Danish krone is pegged closely to the euro with the rate 7. Denmark borders one eurozone member, Germany , and one other EU member, Sweden , which is legally obliged to join the euro in the future though Sweden maintains that joining ERM II is voluntary , thus avoiding euro adoption for the time being.
The Faroe Islands uses a localised, non-independent version of the Danish krone, known as the Faroese króna pegged with the Danish krone at par, using the Danish coin series, but have their own series of distinct banknotes, first being issued in the s and later modernised in the s and the s. Greenland adopted the Act on Banknotes in Greenland in with a view to introducing separate Greenlandic banknotes.
The Act entered into force on 1 June In the autumn of , a new Greenlandic government indicated that it did not wish to introduce separate Greenlandic banknotes and Danmarks Nationalbank ceased the project to develop a Greenlandic series. Still, Greenland continues to use Danish kroner as sole official currency. Historically, Greenland under the colonial administration issued distinct banknotes between and , together with coins between and see Greenland rigsdaler and Greenland krone.
Transfers between the countries count as international with international fees, outside EU rules. The design of the coin series is intended to ensure that the coins are easy to distinguish from each other:.