Currency of Colombia that the bank no longer existed). The period 1899–1903 witnessed revolution, civil war (the Thousand Days War of 1899–1902), inflation, and depreciation. There were numerous note issues of various kinds. Then calm slowly returned. A law of 25 October 1903 prohibited new paper money issues, permitted payment in gold to be stipulated in contracts, and reintroduced the gold peso ("peso oro"), equal to 100 paper pesos, effective 1 January 1904. Outstanding notes were absorbed by auction sales of gold. "El Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia" issued notes in 1886 for 50 centavos and 1, 5, and 10 pesos.
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.