{"id":5597,"date":"2016-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/blog\/2016\/04\/04\/the-chilean-peso\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:34:23","slug":"the-chilean-peso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/blog\/en\/currency\/the-chilean-peso\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chilean Peso"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Chilean Peso is the official currency of <strong>Chile<\/strong>. Its ISO 4217 code is CLP and its symbol is &quot;$&quot;. Each peso was divided into 100 cents until 1984 where cents were eliminated.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chilean Peso banknotes\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/uploads\/blog\/2016\/ABR_2016\/Pesos-chilenos-chilean-pesos.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Peso was <strong>introduced<\/strong> in Chile in <strong>1817<\/strong>, when the country gained independence. In 1959 it was replaced by the Escudo, but in <strong>1975<\/strong> was <strong>reacquired<\/strong> as the Peso.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bills and coins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chilean Peso <strong>banknotes<\/strong> are <strong>1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 and 20000<\/strong>. The notes of a 1000, 2000 and 5000 are made of polymer, while higher denominations such as 10,000 and 20,000, are made of cotton paper. The obverse shows images of remarkables Chileanes of military, independence, writers. On the reverse appear different natural landscapes with their typical animal species. On the website of the Central Bank of Chile you can see the <strong>old notes which have no longer have legal validity<\/strong> to check if we can accept them, take a look on: \u200b\u200b<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billetesymonedas.cl\/Billetes\/FamiliaBilletesAnteriores\">Billetes y monedas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chilean Peso <strong>coins<\/strong> are <strong>1, 5, 10, 50, 100<\/strong> (the new edition coexists with the above) and <strong>500<\/strong> Pesos. On the coins they have the images of the liberator Bernardo O&#39;Higgins, the shield of the country, a Mapuche Indian and Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chilean Peso rate (CLP)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On our website you can check the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/en\/exchange-rates\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Chilean Peso daily rate\" rel=\"noopener\">rate of the Chilean Peso<\/a><\/strong> daily updated. You will be able to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/en\/exchange-rates\/chilean-peso\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Reserve your currencies\" rel=\"noopener\">make a reservation<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;of Pesos (if we have them in stock) or if you prefer you can directly <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eurochange.es\/en\/exchange-rates\/chilean-peso\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Buy Chilean Pesos online\" rel=\"noopener\">buy your Chilean Pesos<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>and receive them at home.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that you can exchange your leftover Pesos back to Euros in any of our exchange offices. We just accept notes, so remember to change the coins before you leave Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going to travel to Chile, read this post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2010,1995],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chilean-peso","category-currency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Chilean Peso | Eurochange.es<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Information on Chilean Peso banknotes and coins legal tender, official currency of Chile.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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