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A French colony on the West coast of Equatorial Africa.
In 1937 it became part of French Equatorial Africa.
In 1958 it became independent within the French Community.Currency :
- 100 centimes = 1 franc.
The islands were annexed by Ecuador. In 1973 they became a province of Ecuador.
Currency :
- 100 centavos = 1 sucre.
A British colony on the East coast of Africa.
Self governing on 4 October 1963.
Independence on 18 February 1965.
A republic on 24 April 1970.Currency :
- 1869 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1971 100 bututs = 1 dalasy.
Formerly part of Transcaucasian Russia.
Acheived independence after the 1917 Russian Revolution when it became part of the Transcaucasian Federation which is now part of Soviet Russia.Currency :
- 100 kopeks = 1 rouble.
German occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during 1914 to 1918.
Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
A German colony on the East coast of Africa.
Under British control after World War 1.Currency :
- 1893 64 pesa = 100 hellar; 100 hellar = 1 rupee.
- 1905 100 hellar = 1 rupee.
A German colony on part of the island of New Guinea.
Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
Stamps of Germany opted Elsass
Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
German occupation of East Belgium between 1914 and 1918.
Stamps of Germany inscribed DEUTSCHES REICH.Currency :
- 100 centimes = 1 franc.
Stamps inscribed ESTLAND or German stamps opted OSTLAND.
Currency :
- 100 kopeks = 1 rouble.
Stamps of Russia opted LATVIA 1941.
Currency :
- 100 kopeks = 1 rouble.
GERMAN OCCUPATION OF LITHUANIA
Stamps of Russia opted NEPRIKLAUSOMA LIETUVA 1941-V1-23 or VILNIUS.
Currency :
- 100 kopeks = 1 rouble.
Stamps of Germany opted Lothringen.
Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
German occupation of Poland between 1915 and 1918.
Stamps of Germany opted Russisch-Polen or Gen.-Gouv. Warschau.Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
German occupation of Rumania between 1917 and 1918.
Stamps opted Gultig 9 Armee or opted M.V.i.R. or opted Rumanien.Currency :
- 100 bani = 1 leu.
Stamps of Germany opted OSTLAND or UKRAINE.
Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 reichsmark.
German occupation of Ionian Islands between 1943 and 1944.
Currency :
- 100 centesimi = 1 lira; 1 litre = 8 drachma.
German Post Offices in China.
Stamps of Germany opted China.Currency :
- 1898 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
- 1905 100 cents = 1 dollar.
GERMAN POST OFFICES IN MOROCCO
German Post Offices in Morocco.
Stamps of Germany surcharged Marocco or Marokko.Currency :
- 100 centimos = 1 peseta.
German Post Offices in Turkey.
Stamps of Germany opted Turkey.Currency :
- 1884 40 para = 1 piaster.
- 1908 100 centimes = 1 franc.
A German colony in South West Africa.
Stamps of Germany opted or inscribed Deutsch-Sudwestafrika.Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
Currency :
- 1872 30 groschen = 1 thaler (North Area).
- 1872 90 kreuzer = 1 gulden (South Area).
- 1875 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
- 1923 100 renten-pfennig = 1 rentenmark (gold currency).
- 1928 100 pfennig = 1 reichsmark.
A German Federal Republic from 1949, includes areas formerly under occupation by British, American and French Zones.
Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
Currency :
- 1948 100 pfennig = 1 Deutsche Mark (East).
- 1949 100 pfennig = 1 Deutsche Mark (West).
The German Democratic Republic was set up in 1949 to administer the Russian Zone.
Currency :
- 100 pfennig = 1 mark.
A location in the Libyan desert administered by France from 1943 to 1951.
Part of Libya from 1951.Currency :
- 100 centimes = 1 franc.
Formerly a British colony of the Gold Coast.
Independent on 6 March 1957.
Became a republic in 1960.Currency :
- 1957 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1965 100 pesawas = 1 cedi.
- 1967 100 new pesawas = 1 new cedi.
- 1972 100 pesawas = 1 cedi; 1 cedi = 0.8 previous new cedi.
A British colony in the Western Mediterranean.
Currency :
- 1886 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1971 100 new pence = 1 pound.
A British colony in the South Pacific.
Currency :
- 1911 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1966 100 cents = 1 Australian dollar.
Independent on 12 July 1979 and renamed Kiribati.
Currency :
- 100 cents = 1 dollar.
A British colony on the West coast of Africa.
Independent in 1957 and was renamed Ghana.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
Consisting of four countries, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Island.
Great Britain is now referred to as the United Kingdom.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound sterling.
- 1971 100 new pence = 1 pound.
A French island North West of Madagascar.
Stamps of France inscribed GRANDE COMORE.Currency :
- 100 centimes = 1 franc.
A country in the South East of Europe.
Under Turkish rule until it became a kingdom in 1930.
Became a republic from 1924 to 1935.
Occupied by Germany from 1941 to 1944.
Became a republic again in 1973.Currency :
- 100 lepta = 1 drachma.
Currency :
- 100 lepta = 1 drachma.
GREEK OCCUPATION OF THE DODECANESE ISLANDS
The Dodecanese Islands were formerly Italian and transferred to Greece in 1947.
Currency :
- 100 lepta = 1 drachma.
Part of the Danish Kingdom to the North East of Canada.
Currency :
- 100 ore = 1 krone.
One of the Windward Islands.
Self Government on 1 January 1960, Statehood on 3 March 1967 and Independence in 1974.Currency :
- 1861 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound sterling.
- 1949 100 cents = 1 West Indian dollar.
Consists of the Southern part of the island group attached to Grenada.
Currency :
- 100 cents = 1 dollar.
Formerly a British colony transferred to the Cape of Good Hope.
Now part of South Africa.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound sterling.
Formerly a French colony in the West Indies that include islands between Antigua and Dominica.
Currency :
- 100 centimes = 1 franc.
An island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the United States of America.
Currency :
- 100 cents = 1 dollar.
A province of Costa Rica.
Stamps of Costa Rica opted Guanacaste.Currency :
- 100 centavos = 1 peso.
A republic in Central America.
Became independent in 1847.Currency :
- 1871 100 centavos = 8 reales; 8 reales = 1 peso.
- 1871 100 centavos de quetzal = 1 quetzal.
An island off the Northwest coast of France.
Occupied by Germany between 1940 and 1945.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound sterling.
Formerly a French colony on the coast of West Africa.
Became independent in 1958.Currency :
- 1892 100 centimes = 1 franc.
- 1973 100 caury = 1 syli.
- 1986 100 centimes = 1 franc.
Formerly Portuguese Guinea until 1974 when a rebellion led to independence.
Currency :
- 100 centavos = 1 escudo.
- 1976 100 cents = 1 peso.
Formerly known as British Guiana.
Became Independent on 26 May 1966.Currency :
- 100 cents = 1 dollar.
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