I love collecting coins and notes from my travels
Juggling
5 different currencies along with the Canadian dollar was interesting!
Luckily my roommate had downloaded a handy offline app that told us what
to expect with the exchange rates.
Useful info (exchange rates are approx based on when I travelled to Central America - April 2015):
Out of the 5 countries I visited, Costa Rica was the most expensive, but Antigua in Guatemala wasn't far behind.
El Salvador adopted the US dollar as their national currency some time ago.
Costa Rica
1 US dollar = 500 Colones
Nicaragua
1 US dollar = 26 Cordobas
Honduras
1 US dollar = 20 Lempira
Guatemala
1 US dollar = 7.5 Quetzales
I was chuffed to get a 1979 white dollar in El Salvador and looked it up to see how rare it was once I got back home. Turns out it isn't that special (would have been great to get the 1981 version), but still a good little find for the currency collection.
Useful info (exchange rates are approx based on when I travelled to Central America - April 2015):
Out of the 5 countries I visited, Costa Rica was the most expensive, but Antigua in Guatemala wasn't far behind.
El Salvador adopted the US dollar as their national currency some time ago.
Costa Rica
1 US dollar = 500 Colones
Nicaragua
1 US dollar = 26 Cordobas
Honduras
1 US dollar = 20 Lempira
Guatemala
1 US dollar = 7.5 Quetzales
I was chuffed to get a 1979 white dollar in El Salvador and looked it up to see how rare it was once I got back home. Turns out it isn't that special (would have been great to get the 1981 version), but still a good little find for the currency collection.
About the white dollar, taken from Wikipedia.
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