Answers to the numismatism quiz
1. Euro. It is the currency of 25 European countries
2. US Dollars. This is the currency of the US, El Salvador, Ecuador, Palau, East Timor, Marshall Islands and Micronesia
3. 33 of them – that is one out of every six countries
4. Franc – 23 of them. Outside of 3 countries in the Europe – that word can be found in a lot of African countries
5. 8 of them – Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives (rufiah), Seychelles, Mauritius and Indonesia (rupiyah)
6. Same as #2 above
7. 3 letters, 11 of them – som, sum, lev, leu (2 countries), lek, kip, sol, yen and won (2 countries)
8. 54 (this includes the the 25 that use Euro). This is more than 1 in four countries!!
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