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
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