European Currency Unit
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The European Currency Unit was a unit of account used by the European Economic Community and composed of a basket of member country currencies. The ECU came in to operation on 13 March 1979 and was assigned the ISO 4217 code. Wikipedia
Symbol: ₠
Code: XEU
Date of introduction: 13 April 1979
Date of withdrawal: 31 December 1998
Pegged with: 8 currencies (1979–1989); 12 currencies (1989–1998)
Replaced: European Unit of Account