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The sol also replaced the Bolivian peso at par, which had circulated in southern Peru. [1] Between 1858 and 1863, coins had been issued denominated in reales, centavos and escudos. The sol was initially pegged to the French franc at a rate of 1 sol = 5 francs (S/. 5.25 to £1 and S/. 1.08 to US$1).
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The Spanish colonial real from the 16th to 19th centuries, with 8 reales equal to 1 peso. The Peruvian real from 1822 to 1863. Initially worth 1 ⁄ 8 peso, reales worth 1 ⁄ 10 peso were introduced in 1858 in their transition to a decimal currency system. The sol or sol de oro from 1863 to 1985, at 1 sol = 10 reales.
Since it was put into use, the sol's exchange rate with the United States dollar has stayed mostly between 2.80 and 3.30 to 1. Out of all the currencies of the Latin American region, the sol is the most stable and reliable, being the least affected by the downturn in the value of the US dollar; during late 2007 and early 2008, the exchange rate ...
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In the US, the colloquial expression "two bits" for a quarter dollar, and the stock market currency real last used for accounting, traded in 1 ⁄ 8 of a U.S. dollar until 2001, still echoes the legal usage in the US in the 19th century. The Peruvian sol was introduced at a rate of 5.25 per British Pound, or just under four shillings (the ...