User:Mom2jandk/LMU currency

The Latin Monetary Union currency is the currency used within the Latin Monetary Union from 1865 until 1927. The countries within the union produced their own separate coins with standard amounts of silver and gold. The coins were freely interchangeable. So, although they are usually referred to individually as the Spanish peseta, French franc, Italian lira, etc. They were in practice a single currency. The standard was 4.5 grams of silver or 0.290322 grams of gold (a ratio of 15.5 to 1).

Members
The union was formed in 1865 by the following states: In 1868 these states joined: In 1889 the following states joined:
 * France (French franc)
 * Belgium (Belgian franc)
 * Switzerland (Swiss franc)
 * Italy (Italian lira)
 * Spain (Spanish peseta)
 * Greece (Greek drachma)
 * Romania (Romanian leu)
 * Austria-Hungary (Austro-Hungarian krone introduced in 1892?)
 * Bulgaria (Bulgarian lev)
 * Venezuela (Venezuelan bolívar)
 * Serbia (Serbian dinar)
 * Montenegro (Montenegrin perper)
 * San Marino (Sammarinese lira)
 * Papal States (Papal States lira)