East Caribbean Dollar in Costa Rican Colon

XCD East Caribbean Dollar

Country of application:
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Coin denominations in circulation:
5, 10, 25 cents and 1 dollar.

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

History reference:
The national currency of Anguilla is the East Caribbean dollar. Since 1982, a new series of coins has been in circulation in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 cents and 1 dollar. Coins from 1 to 5 cen...ts were polyhedral, and a coin of 2 cents was square in shape. They were all made of aluminum alloy. But 10 and 25 cent coins were round, and made of copper-nickel alloy. The dollar was also round, but made of an aluminum bronze alloy. In 1989, the one dollar coin became multifaceted from a round shape and now from a copper-nickel alloy, changing its color from yellow to silver. Since 2002, new exclusively round 1, 2 and 5 cent coins have entered circulation, as well as a new $1 coin, which is now also round. Since 2009, 10.25 cents and 1 dollar coins have been minted from Akmonital alloy. The 1 and 2 cent coins were withdrawn from circulation in July 2015 and were legal tender until June 30, 2020.

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.