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Currency Exchange Rates in Malaysia |
| The official unit of money in Malaysia is Ringgit (MYR). Malaysia converted from the use of the Spanish silver dollar to the Indian rupee in the year 1837. This conversion from the Spanish dollar to the Indian rupee lasted for 30 years until the year 1867 when Malaysia decided on re implementing the use of the silver dollar. The year 1903 saw Malaysia changing currency again. This time round the Straits dollar was used.
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The Straits dollar was pegged at two shillings to the British pound (GBP). The Ringgit was officially adopted the Malaysian government not until 1975. The Ringgit is pegged at 3.80 RM to the U.S. dollar. The word Ringgit means "jagged" in Malay. The Central bank of Malaysia is called the Bank Negara Malaysia. The coins of different denominations in this country would include 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 sen. The notes are available in different denominations of RM1, RM2, RM5, RM10, RM50, and RM100.
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Ringgit is divided into 100 sen (cents) and the currency code of Ringgit is MYR (Malaysian Ringgit). The Malaysian dollar was exchangeable at par with the Singapore dollar and Brunei dollar until the year 1973. The exchangeability of the two currencies is still maintained by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Brunei Currency and Monetary Board.
The Ringgit was trading as a free float currency at around 2.50 to the US dollar before dipping to 3.80 between 1995 and 1997, following East Asian financial crisis. For the first half of the year 1998, the Malaysian currency fluctuated between 3.80 and 4.40 to the dollar before the Ringgit was pegged to the US dollar in September 1998 by the Bank Negara Malaysia. The end of the peg to the US dollar was announced by the Bank Negara on July 21, 2005.
The Ringgit appreciated to 3.50to the US dollar since the middle of 2005 after the end of the currency peg. However, between the last six years, that is, 2001 and 2006, the Ringgit sees depreciation against other currencies following a downward trend of the value of the US dollar. In order to commemorate the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, a commemorative RM50 polymer bank note was issued. This marked Malaysia's first usage of polymer bank notes.
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