Australian Dollar in Costa Rican Colon

AUD Australian Dollar

Country of application:
Australia, Kiribati, Cocos Islands, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Heard and McDonald

Coin denominations in circulation:
2 and 1 dollar, 50, 20, 10 and 5 cents.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 dollars.

History reference:
The Australian dollar is the currency in Australia, including its outer territories. : Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. It is officially used as the currency of three ind...ependent Pacific island nations: Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu. It is legal tender in Australia. Since 1988, a special plastic material has been used in the manufacture of Australian dollar banknotes. Australian dollar banknotes are printed at the state-owned factories of the Royal Australian Mint, located in Melbourne and Perth. Australian coins have a regular round shape. The exception is a coin of fifty cents, made in the form of a regular tetrahedron. On the obverse of the coins there is an image of the profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain (as the official head of the Commonwealth of Australia), and on the reverse there are animals of Australia.

CRC Costa Rican Colon

Country of application:
Costa Rica

Coin denominations in circulation:
10, 25, 50, 100 and 500 columns.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 colones.

History reference:
The currency, named after Christopher Columbus or, in the Spanish manner, Cristobal Colon, came out with a content of 0.7002 grams of pure gold in October 1896. The colon replaced the Costa Rican pes...o and was parity with the US dollar at 2.15:1. The Costa Rican colón was adopted as the national currency in 1896, about 70 years after Costa Rica and its Central American neighbors declared independence from Spain. Colón replaced the Costa Rican peso with a one-to-one exchange rate. The former currency of the peso, a legacy of the colonial era, was divided into eight Spanish reais.