peseta

IPA: pʌsˈeɪtʌ

The former currency of the Spanish Empire and Andorra, divided into 100 céntimos.
The Equatorial Guinean peseta, a former currency of Equatorial Guinea
The Sahrawi peseta, de jure currency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
The Catalan peseta, a former currency of Catalonia.

Examples of "peseta" in Sentences

The purchasing value of the peseta was about fourpence. [back] 14.
He invested money, hired French chefs – gaining a first Michelin star – and never saw a peseta in return.
The peseta is called "peseta;" and the media peseta is known as "dies ay seis" (ten and six), or, simply, "seis"
That is most certainly not the case of Spain, which would unquestionably have suffered terribly if we had still had the peseta.
The Irish punt and Italian lira would sink 25% against a new German mark, while the Spanish peseta would lose 50% and Greece's drachma, 80%.
When asked if the euro should be replaced or maintained, about three in five said to stick with the common currency rather than return to the peseta.
Banks and investment funds in one euro-using country gorged on the bonds of others, freed of worry about devaluation-prone currencies like the drachma, lira, peseta and escudo.
“No, she go early with …” And then the penny, the peseta, the euro … or whatever it was, dropped, and her eyes opened and her face flushed, and all of a sudden she was frightened.
With the usual perversity also, the common standard "peseta," in which small bargains are struck on the coast, was omitted, the nearest coin, the quarter-dollar, being nominally worth ptas.
A peseta is the legal unit of the currency, and is of the same value as the French franc and the Italian lira, or nineteen cents, three mills of our money, as estimated by the director of the