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  • The silver peso weighs 25 grammes, .900 fine.
  • The peso is also the name of the Mexican dollar.
  • The old " peso " is no longer used except in accounts, and is reckoned at 4 bolivares, being sometimes described as a " soft " dollar.
  • By a law of the 9th of December 1904, promulgated by an executive decree of the 25th of March 1905, the gold standard was adopted, and the silver peso, 9027 fine and containing 24.438 grammes of pure silver, was made the monetary unit with a valuation of .75 grammes of gold.
  • It is legally equivalent to the silver peso, which continues in circulation.
 
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