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
History of Chinese currency further reform was instituted in August 1948 in response to hyperinflation. The Gold Yuan Certificate replaced the fabi at the rate of 1 gold yuan = 3 million yuan fabi = US$0.25. The gold yuan was nominally set at 0.22217 g of gold. However, the currency was never actually backed by gold and hyperinflation continued. Finally, in 1949, the Kuomintang again announced a reform with the introduction of the Silver Yuan Certificate, returning China to the silver standard. The silver yuan would be exchanged at 1 silver yuan = 100 million gold yuan, and was backed by silver dollars minted