Currency of Colombia exchange. The notes were never issued (proofs are known). Copper coin dated 1847–1848 The copper coins were rejected by the public, who immediately exchanged them for silver, so they were recalled and melted down. Silver coin dated 1847–1853 .666 fine .900 fine Gold coin .900 fine dated 1848–1853 New machinery for the mints of Bogotá and Popoyán arrived in 1848 and the first gold coins conforming to the 1846 law were put into circulation on 14 February 1849. Peso (Granadino) = 10 Décimos = 100 Centavos (silver) Cóndor = 10 Pesos (gold) The monetary law of 30 May 1853 abolished
Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States power "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". In his first annual message to Congress (what later came to be called "State of the Union Addresses") on January 8, 1790 (a few months before Jefferson's report to the House of Representatives), George Washington stated, "Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to." Washington repeated similar calls for action in his second and third annual messages (after Jefferson's report). Jefferson's decimal