How To Use Peseta In A Sentence
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This in turn is equal to 1.95583 German marks, or 6.55957 French francs, or 166.386 Spanish pesetas, and so on.
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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.
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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
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Alternatively, they are contracted on a piecework basis paid 10 pesetas a kilo of broccoli.
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Francs, Deutschmarks, guilders, punts, drachmas and pesetas will all have gone by the end of February.
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You hand out Euros the way we handed out pesetas some years ago.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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He invested money, hired French chefs – gaining a first Michelin star – and never saw a peseta in return.
How a wartime romance gave birth to the best restaurant in the world
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Dollars (of various nations), pounds, gilders, marks, lire, pesetas, dirhams, takas are up for grabs if one is talented enough with that wooden stick called a hockey.
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Spain adopts the peseta after the revolution of 1868.
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First it was the Deutsch mark, followed by the franc, lira, peseta and drachma.
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If reports are to be believed then there was no shortage of lira and pesetas on offer.
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Other ‘weight’ currencies are the peso (from Latin pensum ‘weight’) and its diminutive, the peseta.
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The euro, which replaces the old francs, marks, guilders, pesetas, escudos, drachmas, and lire of the European Union, is not yet five years old.
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She laughed, stowing the twenty-five thousand pesetas away, leaned across the counter, and took my hand warmly.
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The euro, which replaces the old francs, marks, guilders, pesetas, escudos, drachmas, and lire of the European Union, is not yet five years old.
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The euro, which replaces the old francs, marks, guilders, pesetas, escudos, drachmas, and lire of the European Union, is not yet five years old.
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I would ask people to empty out pots and purses, and gather francs, marks, guilders, pesetas and punts and put them to work to help local people.
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The prices helpfully flash up on the board in pounds, dollars, Swiss francs, pesetas and yen.
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What I'll treasure the most is my collection of Italian lira, Spanish pesetas, French francs and Greek drachmas, as these are four of the 12 European currencies that have been replaced by the new Euro.
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Last week, a venerable Sevilian was found complaining that she saw no reason to give up the peseta and accept the Deutschmark.
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As Europeans trades in their francs, lire and pesetas for the new currency the old divisions in Britain over the new currency remain intact.
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The prices helpfully flash up on the board in pounds, dollars, Swiss francs, pesetas and yen.
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In 16 days the euro will be introduced in 12 European countries, and francs, lire, pesetas and the like will be a thing of the past.
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In 16 days the euro will be introduced in 12 European countries, and francs, lire, pesetas and the like will be a thing of the past.
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“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.
The Priest
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For instance, the Spanish peseta, Portuguese escudo and Irish punt could devalue 50% against the new Deutsche mark.
Breakup of single currency would blight Europe, says Dutch bank Ing
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The peseta is called "peseta;" and the media peseta is known as "dies ay seis" (ten and six), or, simply, "seis
The Bontoc Igorot
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If you hadn't already noticed, gone are the good old peseta, the franc and the drachma.
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When they converted from the peseta to the euro they hiked up all the prices before people knew what was happening in a currency they didn't yet understand.
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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.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
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I want to change my dollars into pesetas what is the exchange rate?
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That helped to boost operating revenue 8. 2 percent, to 221. 66 billion pesetas.
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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.
Ties That Bound Europe Now Fraying
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The purchasing value of the peseta was about fourpence. [back] 14.
Homage to Catalonia
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If you hadn't already noticed, gone are the good old peseta, the franc and the drachma.
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The prices helpfully flash up on the board in pounds, dollars, Swiss francs, pesetas and yen.
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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.
Ties That Bound Europe Now Fraying
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A single funeral site can be worth many Spanish pesetas, enough to feed a family for a lifetime.
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An international businessman might live in US dollars, but if the purpose of the account is to buy a house in Spain, his portfolio currency is actually pesetas.
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Contemporaneously the coinage in Spain was 34 cuartos to one peseta and 5 pesetas to one _duro_ -- the coin nominally equivalent to the peso -- but the duro being subdivided into 20 _reales vellon_, the colonial real fuerte came to be equivalent to 2 1/2 reales vellon.
The Philippine Islands
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Francs, Deutschmarks, guilders, punts, drachmas and pesetas will all have gone by the end of February.
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I asked her how she knew I had gold, and she said that did not matter -- I had some "diutang-a-dacolds" (little dacolds), and she was willing to sell hens for ten "diutang-a-dacolds" _gold_, but not for media-pesetas.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
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I would ask people to empty out pots and purses, and gather francs, marks, guilders, pesetas and punts and put them to work to help local people.
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A pound sterling brought about 120 pesetas in London, but the rate in Spain was fixed at about 100.
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Greece, drachm and lepta; in Roumania, lei and bani: in Servia, dinar and para; in Spain, peseta and centesimo; but in all cases the value is the same.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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In English (following Spanish) a doubloon was a coin worth two pesetas -- the pirates '` piece of eight,' because the peseta was equivalent to four reals.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
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That helped to boost operating revenue 8. 2 percent, to 221. 66 billion pesetas.
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In February 1931 the government agreed to some of the improvements that workers had asked for, for example a minimum wage of five pesetas.
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Contemporaneously the coinage in Spain was 34 cuartos to one peseta and 5 pesetas to one _duro_ -- the coin nominally equivalent to the peso -- but the duro being subdivided into 20 _reales vellon_, the colonial real fuerte came to be equivalent to 2 1/2 reales vellon.
The Philippine Islands
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I want to change my dollars into pesetas what is the exchange rate?
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During the year the bank actually had 12. 18 billion pesetas in capital gains from its fixed-income portfolio.
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The Loan was for 200 millions of pesetas in hypothecary bonds of the Philippine Treasury, bearing 6 per cent, interest, redeemable at par in 40 years.
The Philippine Islands
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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
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
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Instead of paying in pesetas, lire, drachmas, francs and marks, approximately 300 million Europeans are now using one common currency, the euro.
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First it was the Deutsch mark, followed by the franc, lira, peseta and drachma.
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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.
Poll Finds Euro Still Top Option
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Yes, it's goodbye to the franc, the mark, drachma , peseta, lira and many of the other currencies which now confront visitors to Europe.
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They watch me, and they give me pesetas, Spanish money.
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The euro, which replaces the old francs, marks, guilders, pesetas, escudos, drachmas, and lire of the European Union, is not yet five years old.
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Western Europe's grand experiment in union will take a dramatic step forward next year, when the 12 members of the euro zone scrap their marks, francs, lire, and pesetas, and adopt euro in their place.
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The children were all caddies, making a few pesetas to help the family.
