Currency of Colombia Colombia" to issue legal tender notes, with a minimum denomination of 5 pesos. Peso = 10 Décimos = 100 Centavos Cóndor = 10 pesos (gold or silver) By decree of 2 May 1867 President Mosquera made Treasury notes a forced tender, making them equivalent to a national monetary unit. On 12 June he further decreed the obligatory acceptance in public and private transactions of all coins .900, .835, and .666 fine minted by the former Republic of Colombia and by New Granada. The monetary law of 24 October 1867 annulled all previous monetary legislation and defined the national coinage as
Currency of Maldives first coins were of silver and fairly coarse. Later, coins of copper and lead were put into circulation. Gold coins were also struck by Sultan Hassan Nooraddin (1779-1799). Said to be the finest struck at the Maldive mint, the two denominations of gold coins issued by Sultan Hassan Nooraddin, known as the "mohori" and "bai mohori", were never put into circulation. The Maldivian unit of currency is the rufiyaa (ISO 4217 code MVR, symbol "Rf."), introduced in 1947. The rufiyaa is divided into 100 laari. On 1 February 2009, the exchange rate with the US dollar was USD1.00 = MVR12.80.