Highest-Valued Currency Unit

The highest-valued currency unit is the currency in which a single unit buys the highest number of any given other currency or the largest amount of a given good. Most commonly the calculation is made against a major reserve currency such as the euro (EUR), the pound sterling (GBP) or the United States dollar (USD).
A high-valued currency is distinct from a hard currency, which is a currency with a good buying power and which is widely accepted as a reliable store of value. For example, a Kuwaiti dinar is not of very much use outside Kuwait, and is bound to the economy of that country. It is in fact pegged to a basket of hard currencies. In contrast, the Japanese yen is considered a hard currency even though the nominal rate of the dinar is more than 280 times^[1] that of the yen.

[edit] List of highest-valued currency units

As of November 14, 2010, the 15 highest-valued currencies are:^[2][3]

No.	State	Currency	Code	United States dollars USD−1	Euro EUR−1	Kuwaiti dinars KWD−1	Highest valued coin	Highest valued banknote
1.	Kuwait	dinar	KWD	3.57143 0.280000	2.60875 0.383325	1	.100	20
2.	Bahrain	dinar	BHD	2.65252 0.377000	1.93753 0.516120	0.742706 1.34643	.500	20
3.	Oman	rial	OMR	2.60078 0.384500	1.89974 0.526388	0.728218 1.37321	.500	50
4.	Latvia	lats [4]	LVL	1.93424 0.517000	1.42287 0.702804 [5]	0.541586 1.84643	2	500
5.	United Kingdom	pound [6]	GBP	1.61125 0.620636	1.17694 0.849663	0.451150 2.21656	5 (commem.) 2 (common)	100 (Sco & NI) 50 (Eng & Wal)
	Falkland Islands	pound [5]	FKP				2	50
	Gibraltar	pound [5]	GIP				2	50
	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	pound [5]	SHP				2	20
	IMF	Special Drawing Rights	XDR	1.56245 0.640019	1.14129 0.876198	0.437487 2.28578
6.	Jordan	dinar	JOD	1.41443 0.707000	1.03317 0.967897	0.396040 2.52500	1	50
7.	European Union (Eurozone)	euro	EUR	1.36902 0.730450	1	0.383325 2.60875	2	500
8.	Azerbaijan	manat	AZN	1.25063 0.799600	0.913519 1.09467	0.350175 2.85571	.50	100
9.	Cayman Islands	dollar	KYD	1.20664 0.828751	0.881387 1.13458	0.337858 2.95982	.25	100
10.	Cuba	convertible peso	CUC	1.08003 0.925900	0.788908 1.26757	0.302408 3.30679	5 (rare) 1 (common)	100
11.	Switzerland	franc	CHF	1.01952 0.980850	0.744711 1.34280	0.285467 3.50304	5	1000
12.	United States	dollar	USD	1	0.730450 1.36902	0.280000 3.57143	1 (uncommon) .25 (common)	100
	Bahamas	dollar	BSD	1 [5]			1 (rare) .25 (common)	100
	Bermuda	dollar	BMD				1	100
	Panama	balboa	PAB				.50	-
13.	Canada	dollar	CAD	0.988680 1.01145	0.722181 1.38469	0.276830 3.61232	2	100
14.	Australia	dollar	AUD	0.986550 1.01363	0.720625 1.38768	0.276234 3.62012	200 (commem.) 2	100
15.	Libya	dinar	LYD	0.843882 1.18500