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Nicaraguan 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.

Parents / predecessors

Spanish real / peso de a ochoaccount unit branching · 1821–1878
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Children / successors

Siblings

Latest research

Historical account research

National centavo issue represented one hundredth of the already used peso unit of account.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1878supported

National 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

Source access and limitations

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

Source access and limitations

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

Source access and limitations

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.

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