Panamanian balboa
Panamanian balboa: a currency still in use.
- 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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The story
The official legal catalogue identifies Law 84 of 28 June 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 C558 ↗
- Panamanian Legation / US Department of State · Aide-mémoire of 14 January 1935, FRUS document 889 C995 ↗
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“Panamanian balboa.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000071.html