Currency of Colombia or Décimos = 100 Centavos The Granadine Confederation ("Confederación Granadina") was proclaimed 1 April 1858, adopting a new constitution on 22 May. Its brief life under President Mariano Ospina Rodríguez ended in civil war (1860–1862). The Confederation issued Colombia's first postage stamps in August 1859 in denominations of 2½, 5, 10, and 20 centavos and 1 peso. Silver dated 1859–1862 (coins minted at Bogotá are denominated in décimos, those minted at Popayán in reales) .666 fine .900 fine Gold .900 fine, dated 1859–1862: Peso = 10 Décimos = 100 Centavos General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera captured Bogotá on 18 June
United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures was transferred to the House Committee on Banking and Currency. Under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the coinage portion of its jurisdiction was also transferred to that committee, while its weights and measures jurisdiction was transferred to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, thus dissolving the committee. The jurisdiction of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures included the subjects listed in its name: coinage, weights, and measures. The coinage part of the jurisdiction included the defining and fixing of standards of value and the regulation of coinage and exchange. This included the coinage of silver and