Colombian peso

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The peso is the currency of the Republic of Colombia. Its ISO 4217 code is COP and it is also informally abbreviated as COL$. Its sign is the peso symbol ($).

Contents

1 History
2 Coins
3 Bills
4 External links

History

The peso has been the currency of Colombia since 1837. It was introduced at a value of 8 reales. In 1847, Colombia decimalized and the peso was subdivided into ten reales, renamed decimos in 1853. The current system of 100 centavos to the peso was introduced in 1872.

Coins

The coins that are currently used are:

$5
$10
$20
$50
$100
$200
$500
$1000

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in the 1000 colombian peso bill

Bills

The available bill denominations are:

$1,000 (Jorge Eliécer Gaitán)
$2,000 (Francisco de Paula Santander)
$5,000 (José Asunción Silva)
$10,000 (Policarpa Salavarrieta)
$20,000 (Julio Garavito Armero)
$50,000 (Jorge Isaacs)

As noted above, the $1,000 note was withdrawn from circulation to be replaced by a coin; however, it was subsequently reintroduced, with a new design, due to the coin counterfeiting problem. As of 2005 there was a widespread problem with counterfeit $2,000 peso bills. Real bills have brown colored lettering; false bills have red lettering.

External links

() [Bills and Coins]

Currencies of the Americas
Northern America	Bermuda dollar > Canadian dollar \| Danish krone (Greenland) \| Euro (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon) \| US dollar \| Mexican peso
Central America	Belize dollar \| Costa Rican colón \| Guatemalan quetzal \| Honduran lempira \| Nicaraguan córdoba \| Panamanian balboa \| US dollar (El Salvador)
Caribbean	Aruban florin > Bahamian dollar \| Barbados dollar \| Cayman Islands dollar \| Cuban peso \| Cuban convertible peso \| Dominican peso \| East Caribbean dollar \| Euro (Guadeloupe, Martinique) \| Haitian gourde \| Jamaican dollar \| Netherlands Antillean gulden \| Trinidad and Tobago dollar \| US dollar (British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands)
South America	Argentine peso > Bolivian boliviano \| Brazilian real \| Chilean peso \| Colombian peso \| Euro (French Guiana) \| Falkland Islands pound \| Guyanese dollar \| Paraguayan guaraní \| Peruvian nuevo sol \| Suriname dollar \| US dollar (Ecuador) \| Uruguayan peso \| Venezuelan bolívar
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