Weatherday: Greenback

A cloudy start will give way to bright spells from mid-morning. Light breezes from the south west will blow up to moderate for a time and then ease back again.

Highest temperatures around 8deg.

On this day in 1862, the US dollar came into being with that nation's Legal Tender Act. Today it is the de facto global currency, making up 60pc of all known central bank foreign exchange reserves.

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