Nicaraguan peso
Nicaraguan peso: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Where this money came from
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The story
The córdoba succeeded Nicaragua’s peso-denominated treasury currency under the 1912 law, circulating in 1913. [1]
National centavo issue represented one hundredth of the already used peso unit of account. [2]
Nicaragua converts laws, contracts, fees, fines and unspecified-money obligations from pesos to córdobas at 1250:100. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Banco Central de Nicaragua · Reseña histórica de la moneda nacional C997 ↗
- Banco Central de Nicaragua · Reseña Histórica de la Moneda Nacional C1523 ↗
- Nicaraguan legislature · Ley de reducción proporcional del peso a córdoba en contratos, negocios u obligaciones, 13 March 1913 C1662 ↗
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“Nicaraguan peso.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000078.html