Panamanian balboa
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- PAB
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
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Panamanian balboa
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
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Panamanian balboa
Colombian peso
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
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The story
The official legal catalog identifies Law 84 of June 28, 1904, published in Gazette 33 of 5 July, as establishing the balboa and American gold-dollar legal tender. [1]
Turning points
Initially valued at
The new Panamanian gold peso, named balboa, used the contemporary US dollar weight and fineness at parity. A founding unit-standard relationship. The Colombian circulation it displaced remains a separate input. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Procuraduría de la Administración, Panama · Infojurídica: Law 84, Sobre Moneda
- Panamanian Legation / US Department of State · Aide-mémoire of 14 January 1935, FRUS document 889
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“Panamanian balboa.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-13; data version v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000071.html