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CANO BORREGO, Pedro Damián. The change in the Japanese monetary system and the Mexican peso in a file of the National Historical Archive of Spain of 1871. Méx.cuenca pac [online]. 2019, vol.8, n.24, pp.119-139. ISSN 2007-5308.  https://doi.org/10.32870/mycp.v8i24.614.

This article examines the important Japanese monetary reform of the year 1871, for which Japan was endowed with a currency according to Western models. This reform, based on the gold standard, could not be alien to the current trade flows in Asia and the Pacific area, based on the silver coin and especially in the Mexican peso, so it retained the emissions of yen milled in silver for the commerce with the foreign powers. This study incorporates a document preserved in the Archivo Histórico Nacional of Madrid, which shows the importance that in the trade had the Mexican currency of silver.

Palabras llave : currency; Mexican peso; monetary policy; Asian trade; Japan.