The phrase "a currency unit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific measure of currency, often in discussions about finance, economics, or accounting.
Example: "The price of the item is set at ten currency units, which can be converted to various national currencies."
Alternatives: "a monetary unit" or "a financial unit".
The dollar price of a Bitcoin currency unit climbed from a few cents in 2010 to a peak of nearly $30 in June 2011 (see chart), according to data compiled by Mt Gox, a popular online Bitcoin exchange.
They cite that all financial measurements are made using the "International dollar rate [which] is a common currency unit that takes into account differences in relative purchasing power annual average".
Hong Kong and the Philippines have proposed an Asian currency unit on the euro model: an idea that would obviously take years to come to pass, but would not even have been considered a little while ago.Nor have the East Asians been idle on trade issues.
A "drachma" is an ancient Greek currency unit and translates as a "handful", which is a lot less than what Greece will need to pay off all its debts.
In a paper grandly called "Reform the International Monetary System," Zhou has called for the creation of an international currency unit that he admits will require "extraordinary political vision and courage".
Using a percentage allows costs to be analysed in a metric easily converted into all currency units.
Or a single UN currency unit.
Economic data were converted to a single common currency unit (2015 USD value) and the wealth of the areas affected by 65 earthquakes of the region from 1900 to 2015 was assessed.
The second part of the proposal involves a global carbon budget and a new energy-backed currency unit, or "ebcu," which would tie economic activity to the true cost of energy, and take its value from the scarcity of the atmospheric sink for carbon emissions.
