I would guess that the most relevant and meaningful information about a currency would be its purchasing power history.
Why doesnt that info show up in WolframAlpha when I query US Dollar? Is the data not available?
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For financial data, it's often hard to find a data source. And often those data sources don't allow data to be used in certain ways.