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The East Caribbean dollar is issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank based in St Kitts and Nevis. The bank was established by an agreement (the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Agreement) signed at Port-of-Spain on July 5 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu, as successor to the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority. The currency is a successor to the West Indies dollarThe West Indies dollar was a currency used by the British West Indies and later the West Indies Federation. It was adopted in 1935, originally at the rate of $4. 80 per Pound Sterling. In 1962, British Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago withdrew from the curr used by the West Indies FederationThe West Indies Federation was a short-lived Caribbean Governance grouping that existed from January 3, 1958 to May 31, 1962. It was a self-governing, federal state made up of ten provinces (in the British West Indies), all former British colonial possess.
The ISO 4217 currency codeISO 4217 is an international standard describing three letter codes to define the names of currencies established by the International Organization for Standardization or ISO. The first two letters of the code are the two letters of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 cou for the East Caribbean dollar is XCD.
Exchange rate: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1 - 2.7000 (fixed rate since 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s)