Vietnamese Dong in Colombian Peso

VND Vietnamese Dong

Country of application:
Vietnam

Coin denominations in circulation:
200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 VND.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
500, 1000, 2000, 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, 100,000, 200,000, 500,000 VND.

History reference:
The Vietnamese dong has been the national currency of the united Vietnam since 1978 and has been on the forex market to this day. In northern Vietnam, the dong appeared earlier - in 1947, in the Sout...h - a little later - in 1955 (also called "free dong"). In 1887, Vietnam became a colony of France, and from December 22, 1896, the French Indochina piastre was used as a currency in the country, which was equal to the silver Mexican peso and had 24.4935 g of pure silver. From May 1947, North Vietnam began issuing the dong of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The exchange rate of piastre to dong was 1:1. But the piaster was used in parallel with the dong in North Vietnam until November 1954. South Vietnam on September 22, 1955 announced the cessation of the use of piastre as a currency and, a month later, on October 15, the issue of banknotes of the National Bank of Vietnam in dongs began. An interesting fact is that on a banknote of 200 Vietnamese dong in 1987, a Belarus tractor is depicted.

COP Colombian Peso

Country of application:
Colombia, Venezuela

Coin denominations in circulation:
50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 dollars.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
2000, 5000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, 100,000 US dollars.

History reference:
The Colombian Peso is the official currency of the Republic of Colombia. The peso became the Colombian coin in 1810. In 1837, the peso began to replace the real. Then for one peso they gave 8 reais. ...In 1847, Colombia revised the value of the peso, which began to be valued at 10 reais. In 1853, the real was renamed desimo, which means "tenth" in Spanish. In 1903, the Central Bank of Colombia set a fixed rate on the British pound sterling, according to which 5 pesos were equal to 1 pound. In 1931, Great Britain abandoned the gold standard, in the same year the Colombian pesos also moved away from the gold-currency equivalent standard. Later, in different periods of the existence of the state, the peso experienced several devaluations caused by economic crises in the country.