← Read the currency articleNicaraguan peso: research record
Evidence coverage: 1821–1913. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
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Nicaraguan peso
FTM000078 · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1821–1913; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
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Historical account researchNational centavo issue represented one hundredth of the already used peso unit of account.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1878supportedNational centavo issue represented one hundredth of the already used peso unit of account.
C1523
Evidence & research notes 4 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C997
The córdoba succeeded Nicaragua’s peso-denominated treasury currency under the 1912 law, circulating in 1913.
Banco Central de Nicaragua · Reseña histórica de la moneda nacional Citation S476 ·
Open source ↗1878–1879 peso issues; 1912 law and 1913 circulation; 1988 and 1990 reforms
Supported C1523
National centavo issue represented one hundredth of the already used peso unit of account.
Banco Central de Nicaragua · Reseña Histórica de la Moneda Nacional Citation S859 ·
Open source ↗Historical paragraphs2–3
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1662
Nicaragua converts laws, contracts, fees, fines and unspecified-money obligations from pesos to córdobas at1250:100.
Nicaraguan legislature · Ley de reducción proporcional del peso a córdoba en contratos, negocios u obligaciones, 13 March 1913 Citation S726 ·
Open source ↗Articles 1–2 and 4; La Gaceta103,8May1913
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1691
Nicaragua's peso accounting continued the inherited Spanish/Central American monetary system before the1878national decimal coin issue.
F. Tomás Dueñas and Manuel B. Chacón; Consejo Monetario Centroamericano · La moneda en Centroamérica: de la colonia a los Estados independientes, in50Aniversario (2014),207–223 Citation S858 ·
Open source ↗CMCA214,217,221–222; BCNparagraph2
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Banco Central de Nicaragua · Reseña Histórica de la Moneda Nacional Citation S859 ·
Open source ↗CMCA214,217,221–222; BCNparagraph2
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.