What currency is used in the Caribbean?

There are a number of currencies serving multiple territories; the most widespread are the East Caribbean dollar (8 countries and territories), the United States dollar (5) and the euro (4). ^ The Caribbean guilder is to replace the Netherlands Antillean guilder (by an unspecified date).

What currency is a dollar?

The symbol for most of those currencies is the dollar sign $ in the same way as many countries using peso currencies. The name "dollar" originates from Bohemia and a 29 g silver-coin called the Joachimsthaler . One Sarawak dollar from 1935, featuring Charles Vyner Brooke, the 3rd and last White Rajah of Sarawak

Which countries do not use the Eastern Caribbean dollar?

The other two associate members of the OECS do not use the Eastern Caribbean dollar as their official currency: the British Virgin Islands and Martinique. The British Virgin Islands were always problematic for currency purposes due to their proximity to the Danish West Indies, which became the United States Virgin Islands in 1917.

What currency does the United States use?

The dollar is the official currency of several U.S. territories and other sovereign nations around the world. It's also the quasi-official currency of many other nations that, in addition to their local currency, commonly accept U.S. dollars.