See also: Peso
The Mexican peso ( MXN or $ ) is the official currency of the Mexico. It had also course in all the North America. In agreement with the decree signed the July 6th 1785, the currency manufactured in Mexico was the base of the monetary system states-unien until the April 2nd 1792, date on which the the United States of America created their own currency. There remained average of legal payment until in 1857.Cette coin then weighed 27,07 grams of standard silver of 0,9027 thousandth. A very serious calculation based on official data at summer made by Ottomar Haupt and published in its book " arbitrations and parités" in 1894 gives the figure of 3 billion 292 million 217 thousand 390 pesos money struck between 1537 and 1892 to Mexico. The monetary system was composed to the coming into effect of the peso " décimal" peso being worth 8 réales (from where the sign $) itself being worth half of an escudo. The first emitted decimal part was that of a copper centavo in 1863. The first part being marked peso was struck out of money (27,07 gr.) during the second Mexican Empire in 1866 with the effigy of Maximilien. The first peso with the weapons of the Republic was it in 1869.On took again the manufacture of the parts of 8 réales of the same weight and silver title because they were appreciated like means of exchange and hoarding in Far East (China particularly) but also in Japan, in Thailand, Malaysia… The part definitively found its name of Peso in 1898. During the Mexican Revolution Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata made circulate of the money pesos struck in their zones of influence.
Currencies
Mexican coins are emitted in the following denominations:
5 centavos (often not used)
10 centavos
20 centavos
50 centavos
1 Pesos
2 Pesos
5 Pesos
10 Pesos
20 Pesos (still course has but little used)
50 Pesos is not used any more
There exist other values, they are commératives currencies of legal tender but not circulating.
Tickets
The current banknotes cover the six following values:
20 Pesos (out of plastic)
50 Pesos (out of plastic)
100 Pesos
200 Pesos
500 Pesos
1000 Pesos
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