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Provisional issues of 40 and 80 pesos were produced in 1848, followed by regular government notes for 1, 2 and 5 pesos in 1849, and 10 and 50 peso notes in 1858. The Comisión de Hacienda issued 50 and 200 pesos in 1865, whilst the Junta de Crédito introduced notes for 10 and 20 centavos that year, followed by 5 and 40 centavos in 1866 and 1 ...
Three days after Arias left the country, [1] the rest of the occupation forces landed and took control of the country within two months, [1] and on November 29, the United States imposed martial law and established a military government under Captain (later Rear Admiral) Harry Shepard Knapp, Commander of the Cruiser Force aboard his flagship ...
Dominican Americans (Spanish: domínico-americanos, [4] estadounidenses dominicanos) are Americans who trace their ancestry to the Dominican Republic.The phrase may refer to someone born in the United States of Dominican descent or to someone who has migrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic.
In 1686 Spain minted a coin worth 8 reales provinciales (or only $0.80, known as the peso maria or peso sencillo) which was poorly received by the people. [1] An edict made in the same year which valued the peso duro at $1 = 15 and 2/34 reales de vellon proved to be ineffective as the various reales in circulation contained even less silver ...
Dominicans (Spanish: Dominicanos) ... Raids on the national treasury enabled Trujillo to amass a net worth of 800 million dollars (5.3 billion dollars today). [42]
Certain numbers could be redeemed for prizes, which ranged from 100 pesos (about US$4) to 1 million pesos for a grand prize, roughly US$40,000 in 1992, [7] at the time equivalent to 611 times the average monthly salary in the Philippines. [8] Pepsi allocated a total of US$2 million for prizes. [4]
The counterfeit currency recovered included $3.5 million worth of $100 bills and £2.5 million of £10 notes, which Bank of England experts said were of excellent quality. The police stated that "The potential to undermine the economy of the UK and US was very significant."
USD to Argentine peso exchange rates, 1976–1991 USD to Argentine peso exchange rate, 1991–2022. The following table contains the monthly historical exchange rate of the different currencies of Argentina, expressed in Argentine currency units per United States dollar. [citation needed] The exchange rate at the end of each month is expressed in: