Currency history
Argentine peso
Argentine peso: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- ARS
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
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Predecessor
Austral1992Documented10000 Austral = 1 ARS
This currencyARS
Argentine pesoNo successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
The peso became effective on 1 January 1992 at 10, 000 australs per peso; the issuer attributes the change to Decree 2128 of 10 October 1991. [1]
Turning points
Redenominated as
Austral converted into Argentine peso at 10000 old units per new unit. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Banco Central de la República Argentina · Billetes y monedas en vigencia C490 ↗
- Banco Central de la República Argentina · Billetes y monedas: Emisiones anteriores; Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C1016 ↗
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“Argentine peso.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000061.html