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Date: 2003-03-10 (Monday)
The BIS (Bank for International Settlements) abandoned the Swiss gold franc as the bank's unit of account since 1930, and replaced it with the SDR.

SDR stands for Special Drawing Rights and is a unit of currency originally created by the IMF






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