Costa Rican peso
The peso was the currency of Costa Rica between 1850 and 1896. It was initially subdivided into 8 reales and circulated alongside the earlier currency, the real, until 1864, when Costa Rica decimalized and the peso was subdivided into 100 centavos. The peso was replaced by the colón at par in 1896
Coins
In 1850, silver coins were issued in denominations of 1⁄16, ⅛ and ¼ peso. In 1864, silver coins were introduced in denominations of 25 centavos and 1 peso. These were followed the next year by cupro-nickel ¼ and 1 centavos and silver 5, 10 and 50 centavos, with gold 2, 5 and 10 pesos introduced by 1870. In 1889, Colombian 50 centavos coins were counterstamped and issued as 50 centavos coins in Costa Rica.
Banknotes
In 1865, the government introduced paper money in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 pesos. 2 pesos notes were added in 1871. The Anglo-Costa Rican Bank issued 1, 25, 50 and 100 pesos notes whilst the Bank of Costa Rica issued 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 100 pesos notes.
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Circulating | Argentine peso · Chilean peso · Colombian peso · Cuban convertible peso · Cuban peso · Dominican peso (peso oro) · Macanese pataca (圓) · Mexican peso · Philippine peso (piso) · Uruguayan peso |
Obsolete | Argentine peso argentino · Argentine peso ley · Argentine peso moneda corriente · Argentine peso moneda nacional · Bolivian peso · Catalan peseta (pesseta) · Costa Rican peso · Ecuadorian peso · Equatorial Guinean peseta · Guatemalan peso · Guinea Bissau peso · Honduran peso · Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso · Nicaraguan peso · Paraguayan peso · Peruvian peseta · Portuguese Timorese pataca · Puerto Rican peso · Salvadoran peso · Spanish peso · Spanish peseta (pesseta, pezeta) · Venezuelan peso |
See also | Peso sign · Maltese pataca (coin) |