If you travel to France these days, you’ll be dealing in European currency rather than French currency. That’s been the case since 2000, when the country adopted the euro as its official currency.

France's national currency may be disappearing with scarcely a whimper, but it was born in a Gallic flourish of defiance against the English Kings during the Hundred Years War. In French the word ...

The French franc slipped into history to be replaced entirely by the euro. You sent us your memories of the currency. I was very impressed with the franc notes when I first saw them not so long ago. I ...

French savers had until the close of business on Friday to exchange their francs for euros. Long queues formed outside branches of The Bank of France, which had set the last-chance saloon deadline.

The silver coin is larger than the current one. It was withdrawn in 1931. There are 200-300 examples in existence. A private individual domiciled in Switzerland won the bid, Marianne Rapp Ohmann, ...

BERN, Switzerland — The Swiss government says it will produce a 20 franc silver coin with Roger Federer’s image on it. The government says it’s the first time it has dedicated a commemorative coin to ...