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20,000 Colombian peso note. The 20,000 Colombian peso note ($20,000) is one of the notes in circulation in Colombia. It is about 143 × 66 millimeters and the predominant color is orange. The front features former Colombian president Alfonso López Michelsen and a sugar apple, while the reverse shows a sombrero vueltiao and the canals of La Mojana.
The Colombian peso (sign: $; code: COP) is the currency of Colombia. Its ISO 4217 code is COP. The official peso symbol is $, with Col$. [ 1 ] also being used to distinguish it from other peso - and dollar -denominated currencies. One peso is divided one hundred centavos; however, because of high inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, Colombia ...
Currency in Colombia denotes the ingots, coins, and banknotes that have been used in Colombia since 1622. It was in that year, under a licence purchased from King Philip III of Spain, that Alonso Turrillo de Yebra established a mint at Santa Fe de Bogotá and a branch mint at Cartagena de las Indias, where gold cobs were produced as part of Colombia's first currency.
The 50,000 Colombian peso note is the second highest denomination of Colombian currency. Designed by Óscar Muñoz, the front of the notes feature Jorge Isaacs and the heroine of his novel María, and the back of the notes feature an Albizia saman tree, two palm trees, an image of Isaacs' house El Paraiso, and an excerpt from María.
Banknotes of Demerary and Essequibo. Categories: Banknotes by continent. Currencies of South America.
In circulation since. Manuel Belgrano. 1770–1820. Economist, lawyer, politician, and military leader; took part in the Argentine Wars of Independence and created the Flag of Argentina. $10. Obverse (1999 and 2016); Reverse (2016) 1999 and 2016. Juana Azurduy de Padilla. 1780 or 1781–1862.
The Chilean currency, the Chilean peso, is also strong. [10] However, this again means that manufacturing struggles, as cheaper imports are pricing them out of business. [10] In January 2011, after Chile announced that in 2011 the country planned to buy foreign reserves of $12 billion, the peso experienced an immediate fall in value. [10]
The peso is the monetary unit of several Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, as well as the Philippines. Originating in the Spanish Empire , the word peso translates to "weight". In most countries of the Americas, the symbol commonly known as dollar sign , "$", was originally used as an abbreviation of "pesos" and later adopted by the ...