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PESETA

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PESETA , a See also:

silver See also:coin and unit of value, the See also:Spanish See also:equivalent of the See also:French, Belgian and Swiss See also:franc, the See also:Italian See also:lira and the See also:Greek drachma in the Latin monetary See also:union. The peso (See also:Lat. pensum, See also:weight), of which peseta is a diminutive, was a Spanish coin of See also:gold, peso de oro, or silver, peso de See also:Plato, once current in See also:Spain and her colonies, and now the name of a silver coin of many See also:South See also:American states. The peso is also the name of the Mexican See also:dollar.

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