Serbian Dinar in Nicaraguan Cordoba

RSD Serbian Dinar

Country of application:
Serbia

Coin denominations in circulation:
1, 2, 5, 20 dinars.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000 dinars.

History reference:
The Serbian dinar is the national currency of Serbia. After the conquest of the Serbs by the Ottomans and until the middle of the 19th century, various monetary units circulated in parallel on its te...rritory. There were Ottoman mints in Novo Brdo, Kuchayn and Belgrade. The smallest coin was "para", whose name the Ottomans borrowed from the Persian word - coin. During World War II, Germany occupied Yugoslavia. The new Serbian dinar replaced the Yugoslav dinar in 1941, pegged to the German Reichsmark at a rate of 250 dinars to one Reichsmark. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1944, the Yugoslav dinar returned instead of the Serbian dinar at the rate of one Yugoslav dinar to 20 Serbian dinars.

NIO Nicaraguan Cordoba

Country of application:
Nicaragua

Coin denominations in circulation:
5, 10, 25, 50 centavos, 1.5 Canadian dollars.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 Canadian dollars.

History reference:
The Nicaraguan Cordoba is the currency of Nicaragua. It was first issued on March 20, 1912 and suffered from chronic and severe inflation. Initially, the Central Bank of the country issued coins in d...enominations of 1/2, 1, 5, 10, 25 centavos and 1 cordoba, as well as paper banknotes in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 cordoba. One cordoba was equal to 100 centavos. Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, whose exports largely depend on agriculture and the extraction of raw materials. The author first learned about the distant Latin American country of Nicaragua as a boy in the 1980s. And it was not in geography lessons at school, but from the TV news program "Vremya". The serious announcer often talked about the battles in the Nicaraguan jungle that the Contras fought against the Sandinistas, about the fiery revolutionary Daniel Ortega and the freedom fighter of the Nicaraguan people Augusto Sandino. And then, quite by accident, a small Nicaraguan coin with the image of a large wide-brimmed hat fell into the hands of the author.