The
franc (; ;
sign:
F or
Fr), also commonly distinguished as the (
FF), was a
currency of
France. Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1
livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money. It was reintroduced (in
decimal form) in 1795. It was revalued in 1960, with each (
NF) being worth 100 old francs. The NF designation was continued for a few years before the currency returned to being simply the franc; the French continued to reference and value items in terms of the old franc (equivalent to the new
centime) until the introduction of the
euro in 1999 (for accounting purposes) and 2002 (for coins and banknotes). The French franc was a commonly held international
reserve currency in the 19th and 20th centuries.