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
Denarius and former Yugoslavia was "dinar", and it is still used in present-day Serbia. The Macedonian currency "denar" is also derived from the Roman denarius. The Italian word "denaro", the Spanish word "dinero", the Portuguese word "dinheiro", and the Slovene word "", all meaning money, are also derived from Latin "denarius". 1 gold aureus = 2 gold quinarii = 25 silver denarii = 50 silver quinarii = 100 bronze sestertii = 200 bronze dupondii = 400 copper asses = 800 copper semisses = 1600 copper quadrantes In the New Testament, the gospels refer to the denarius as a day's wage for