Mexican Currency Bills & Coins Billetes y Monedas Mexicanas

May 12, 2017 • By Inside Mexico

The Mexican currency is called Peso and its symbol is $. The Peso and the US Dollar have both its origin in the 15th-19th century Spanish dollar.

The peso was originally the name of the eight real coins issued in Mexico by Spain and the first currency to use the $ symbol.

Its ISO code is MXN.

The first currency to be used in what is now Mexico, during Pre-Columbian times was the Cacao bean.

The Mexican Peso is the 8th currency most traded in the world and the 1st in Latin America.

Since 1535 the peso coins are made by la Casa de Moneda de Mexico. Bills are printed since 1969 by the Banco de Mexico.

Coins

[caption id="attachment_3736" align="aligncenter" width="408"] Mexican Coins[/caption]

Bills

[caption id="attachment_3725" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Ten Pesos Emiliano Zapata[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3726" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Ten Pesos Back of Bill[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3727" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $20 Pesos Benito Juarez[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3728" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $20 Pesos Back of Bill Monumento a Juarez[/caption]

50 Pesos

[caption id="attachment_3739" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $50 Pesos Back Morelia, Monarch Butterflies Fishermen[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3729" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $100 Pesos Nezahualcoyotl[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3730" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $100 Pesos Tenochtitlan[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3731" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $200 Pesos Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3732" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $500 Pesos General Ignacio Zaragoza[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3733" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $500 Pesos Back Puebla's Cathedral[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3734" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $500 Pesos Diego Rivera[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3735" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $500 Pesos Back Frida Kahlo[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3740" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $1,000 Pesos Miguel Hidalgo[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3741" align="aligncenter" width="300"] $1,000 Pesos Dolores Hidalgo[/caption]