Mexican peso Mexican peso The Mexican peso (sign: $; code: MXN) is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 15th–19th century-Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$". The Mexican peso is the 10th most traded currency in the world, the third most traded currency from America (after the United States dollar and Canadian dollar), and the most traded currency from Latin America. The current ISO 4217 code for the peso is "MXN"; prior to the 1993 revaluation (see below), the code "MXP" was used. The peso is subdivided into 100 "centavos", represented
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