peseta

How To Use peseta In A Sentence

• This in turn is equal to 1.95583 German marks, or 6.55957 French francs, or 166.386 Spanish pesetas, and so on.
• When I go through my old lira, pesetas, francs and drachma, I am reminded of the true meaning of being ‘in the Navy,’ and seeing something unique outside the United States.
• Even when the pace quickened with the stress of the music the gestures still continued to be restrained and hieratic, only when, one by one, the performers detached themselves from the round and knelt before us for the _peseta_ it is customary to press on their foreheads, did one see, by the moisture which made the coin adhere, how quick and violent their movements had been. In Morocco
• Alternatively, they are contracted on a piecework basis paid 10 pesetas a kilo of broccoli.
• Francs, Deutschmarks, guilders, punts, drachmas and pesetas will all have gone by the end of February.
• You hand out Euros the way we handed out pesetas some years ago.
• 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%. Banks Ponder Scenarios if Countries Drop Euro
• And of course if Romania does join the EU in 2007 or 2008, a few years after that the leu will go the way of the mark and the peseta when Romania adopts the euro.
• That is most certainly not the case of Spain, which would unquestionably have suffered terribly if we had still had the peseta. Nick Clegg: Join the euro to save the City and public finances
• What is Spain without the peseta, France without the franc, what would America be without the dollar, even the old IR for the Irish pound had a characteristic all its own.