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Monetary Reform Law

Mexico · Economy / Gold Standard. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1905Date range
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Chronological records

1905

Porfirio Diaz25 March 1905

Mexico City · Economy / Gold Standard

Mexico enacts a monetary reform defining the peso by 75 centigrams of pure gold and replacing bimetallism with a gold-exchange standard.

Names involved

Porfirio Diaz

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