DKKxxx Danish Krone exchange rate Live chart (Denmark currency, code: DKK, symbol: kr.)




Denmark currency : Danish Krone (ISO 4217 currency code: DKK, symbol: kr.) : 1 kr. (krone) = 100 øre. € 1 (euro) = 7.46038 kr. (krone), Band 2.25%. The krone is pegged to the euro via the ERM II, the European Union's exchange rate mechanism. Danish Krone is sometimes referred to as the Danish Crown in English, since krone literally means crown. The name øre is derived from the Roman word for gold. Its nicknames are 100-krone note (hund (dog) shortening the word hundrede (a hundred), 500-krone note (plovmand (ploughman)) , 1000-krone note (tudse (toad), meaning a thousand) or egern (squirrel). The official currency of Kingdom of Denmark (Kongeriget Danmark), Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. Danish Krone was introduced on 1 January 1875. Kingdom of Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. Central bank is Danmarks Nationalbank (ČNB, Česká národní banka).