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  2. List of currencies in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Chilean currency, the Chilean peso, is also strong. [10] However, this again means that manufacturing struggles, as cheaper imports are pricing them out of business. [10] In January 2011, after Chile announced that in 2011 the country planned to buy foreign reserves of $12 billion, the peso experienced an immediate fall in value. [10]

  3. Mexican peso - Wikipedia

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    USD/MXN exchange rate. Mexican peso crisis in 1994 was an unpegging and devaluation of the peso and happened the same year NAFTA was ratified. [2]The Mexican peso (symbol: $; currency code: MXN; also abbreviated Mex$ to distinguish it from other peso-denominated currencies; referred to as the peso, Mexican peso, or colloquially varo) is the official currency of Mexico.

  4. List of currencies - Wikipedia

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    Argentine peso moneda corriente – Argentina; Argentine peso moneda nacional – Argentina; Bolivian peso – Bolivia; Chilean peso – Chile; Colombian peso – Colombia; Costa Rican peso – Costa Rica; Cuban convertible peso – Cuba; Cuban peso – Cuba; Dominican peso – Dominican Republic; Ecuadorian peso – Ecuador; Guatemalan peso ...

  5. Peso - Wikipedia

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    In 1686 Spain minted a coin worth 8 reales provinciales (or only $0.80, known as the peso maria or peso sencillo) which was poorly received by the people. [1] An edict made in the same year which valued the peso duro at $1 = 15 and 2/34 reales de vellon proved to be ineffective as the various reales in circulation contained even less silver ...

  6. Decimalisation - Wikipedia

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    Decimalisation or decimalization (see spelling differences) is the conversion of a system of currency or of weights and measures to units related by powers of 10.. Most countries have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are valued relative to the basic unit by a power of 10, most commonly ...

  7. Latin American economy - Wikipedia

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    Current exchange rate levels will help the external deficit correct itself. In 2017, the Colombian Peso is expected to trade at 3,007 COP per 1 USD. At the end of 2016, the Congress of Colombia approved a tax reform bill, with the goal of making public accounts more sustainable and replacing revenue that the government lost from the oil sector ...

  8. Colombian peso - Wikipedia

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    The Banco de la República introduced 200 and 1,000 peso oro notes in 1974 and 1979, respectively, whilst 1 and 2 peso oro notes ceased production in 1977, followed by 10 pesos oro in 1980, 5 pesos oro in 1981, 20 pesos in 1983 and 50 pesos in 1986. 500 pesos oro notes were introduced in 1986 with 10,000 pesos oro in 1992.

  9. 50,000 Colombian peso note - Wikipedia

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    The 50,000 Colombian peso note is the second highest denomination of Colombian currency.Designed by Óscar Muñoz, the front of the notes feature Jorge Isaacs and the heroine of his novel María, and the back of the notes feature an Albizia saman tree, two palm trees, an image of Isaacs' house El Paraiso, and an excerpt from María.