Currency of Colombia and South América Bank" was established in 1864 and was granted the right of issue in 1865. Silver coin of the 1863 standard .666 fine .900 fine Silver coin of the modified 1867 standard .666 fine .835 fine Gold coin .900 fine dated 1862–1878 Peso = 100 Centavos The monetary law of 9 June 1871 put the currency on the silver standard of the Latin Monetary Union system, the Colombian peso of 22.500 g fine silver being equal to 5 francs. It prohibited minting of coin .666 fine. Medios and cuartillos were to be minted .835 fine and the half
Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States power "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". In his first annual message to Congress (what later came to be called "State of the Union Addresses") on January 8, 1790 (a few months before Jefferson's report to the House of Representatives), George Washington stated, "Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to." Washington repeated similar calls for action in his second and third annual messages (after Jefferson's report). Jefferson's decimal