Pat Naughtin asked in USMA 25972:
Dear Norman,
You refer to the adoption, by the USA, of decimal currency (in 1793 I
think). Do you know if the USA was the first nation in the world to adopt
decimal currency, or was there any other nation who had done so earlier?
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
So far as I know, the USA was the first nation to adopt decimal
currency. That was in 1786. France adopted the franc, with decimal
sudivision, in 1793, further confirmed in 1795 by a law which
specified that the franc would be divided into 10 décimes and the
décime would be divided into 10 centimes
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