And yet nations can impose enormous costs on their citizens when they take extraordinary efforts to maintain independent currencies.

Would it [an independent Scotland] have its own independent currency?

This is then compared to a fully independent Scottish currency.

An independent currency allowed the colonies to gain power and slowly break away from the British economically and culturally.

Some 4,000 of the 13,000 currency dealers who had flourished in the 1980s struggled on, trading the remaining independent currencies.

It is not an independent currency but a version of the Danish krone.

The Union party opposed this, claiming that there simply wasn't an economic basis for an independent currency.

The franc was the independent currency of Mali between 1962 and 1984.

There can be no single currency unless it is an independent currency.

These competing providers issue a type of independent currency.