Chilean peso
Chilean peso: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- CLP
- Ancestry branch
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Where this money came from
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No successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
The central bank's 1979 table records the 1975 change from escudos to pesos at 1, 000 escudos per peso. [1]
Turning points
Redenominated as
Chilean escudo converted into Chilean peso at 1000 old units per new unit. Country-specific currency-history entry. Cash introduction and accounting implementation can differ; earlier unit inputs remain open. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Banco Central de Chile · Tipo de cambio en Chile, 1948–1978 C587 ↗
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C1018 ↗
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“Chilean peso.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000068.html