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On 8 November 2004, the U.S. dollar ceased to be accepted in Cuban retail outlets and left the convertible peso as the only currency in circulation in many Cuban businesses. Officially exchangeable only within the country, its value was increased to US$1.08 in April 2005, but reverted to US$1.00 on 15 March 2011. [ 1 ]
The Cuban peso (in Spanish peso cubano, ISO 4217 code: CUP) also known as moneda nacional, is the official currency of Cuba.. The Cuban peso historically circulated at par with the Spanish-American silver dollar from the 16th to 19th centuries, and then at par with the U.S. dollar from 1881 to 1959.
1.00 KYD = 1.20 USD Cuba: Cuban peso: CUP: Central Bank of Cuba: 24.00 CUP = 1.00 USD Sint Maarten: Netherlands Antillean guilder [1] ANG: Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten: 1.79 ANG = 1.00 USD Curaçao Dominican Republic: Dominican peso: DOP: Banco Central de la República Dominicana: float Guadeloupe: Euro: EUR: European Central Bank ...
Cuba legalized the use of the US dollar and created a dual currency system, one based on the dollar and the Cuban convertible peso with the other system based on the Cuban peso. Different institutions and businesses operated on only one side of the currency divide. The Cuban peso, used mostly by Cuban nationals, could not buy imported goods. [1]
Fixed currency (alphabetical order) Anchor currency Rate (anchor / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins) [1]: Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin
Moreover, by September 1995, it was possible to deposit hard currency with interest in the Cuban National Bank; by October of that same year, the government had created foreign currency exchange houses (Casas de Cambio, CADECA) with 23 branches throughout the island [19] where Cubans could exchange USD for pesos at a rate similar to that of the ...
These foreign-currency deposits are the financial assets of the central banks and monetary authorities that are held in different reserve currencies (e.g., the U.S. dollar, the euro, the pound sterling, the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc, the Indian rupees and the Chinese renminbi) and which are used to back its liabilities (e.g., the local ...
Cuban convertible peso – Cuba; Cuban peso – Cuba; Dominican peso – Dominican Republic; Ecuadorian peso – Ecuador; Guatemalan peso – Guatemala; Guinea Bissau peso – Guinea Bissau; Honduran peso – Honduras; Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso – Philippines; Malvinas Islands peso – Malvinas Islands (Falkland Islands ...