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If you search eur to usd on Google, you'll see a chart.

The chart starts from 198x as below:

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However, on this Wikipedia page. It says

The euro came into existence on 1 January 1999

Is it a Google mistake? What does the data before 1999 mean?

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The same wiki page says EUR replaced ECU with 1:1 rate. So history before 1999 likely represents ECU/USD rate.

However, I'm not sure why is starts in 1982 then, as ECU was introduced in 1979.

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