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
Japanese mon (currency) Japanese mon (currency) The was the currency of Japan from the Muromachi period in 1336, until the early Meiji period in 1870. It co-circulated with the new sen until 1891. The Kanji for "mon" is and the character for currency was widely used in the Chinese-character cultural sphere, e.g. Chinese wen, Korean mun. Throughout Japanese history, there were many different styles of currency of many shapes, styles, designs, sizes and materials, including gold, silver, bronze, etc. Coins denominated in mon were cast in copper or iron and circulated alongside silver and gold ingots denominated in "shu", "bu" and "ryō", with