intin.
The standard unit of currency in Peru between 1985 and 1991, equivalent to 100 céntimos.
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1985 Times 9 Jan. 15/8 Peru will launch a new currency next month. The inti, worth 1000 sols, takes its name from the Sun God of the Inca empire.
1985 Financial Times 31 July 1/6 There is wide speculation in Lima that the move signals..a tough new economic austerity programme, the devaluation of the inti and the imposition of exchange controls.
1988 Times 15 June 8/7 There was a reward of four million intis (£13,700) for information leading to his detention.
1989 Economist 29 July 68/1 Opposition economists..predict that the fresh-issued intis are just the first of trillions to cover this year's projected public-sector deficit of 3,500,000,000,000 intis.
1991 World Press Rev. Feb. 43/2 Now Fujimori plans to phase out the inti and issue a new currency, the sol, which will be worth 1 million intis.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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