U.S. Dollar

The U.S. dollar, USD, buck, green, all the words - synonyms that mean the same object, namely the currency of the United States of America. She needed a couple of centuries to evolve from simply money used by American colonists to the world's reserve currency status of which remains unshaken, yet in spite of even the most pessimistic forecasts, referring to the global crisis.

Conventional unit dollar is divided into 100 cents. Market refers to the U.S. dollar as USD, and the dollar is known, even where it has never seen "live", the famous $ sign. In particular, it can be seen on any keyboard layout. Also associated with the dollar green because that color was black, which used the first American Mint, printing fresh notes.To date, the face value of notes is limited to 100 units in its conventional banknote Fed. Denominations, the smaller the value is 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, $ 50, each with its own, unique design on the obverse and reverse. Coins are in dollars only in the form of a 2-dollar counterparts, and the rest of the coin - the carriers for the token currency, or simply cents: 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 cents. The course uses the U.S. dollar currency basket. On the Rights of the reserve currency, the issuer is able to influence the dollar exchange rate on many foreign currencies, increasing or decreasing the amount of dollars in the global economy.