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The peseta (/ p ə ˈ s eɪ t ə /, Spanish:) [a] was the currency of Spain between 1868 and 2002. Along with the French franc , it was also a de facto currency used in Andorra (which had no national currency with legal tender ).
The official currency of Spain since 2002 is the Euro. The basic and most prevalent unit of Spanish currency before the Euro was the Peseta. The first Peseta coins were minted in 1869, and the last were minted in 2011. Peseta banknotes were first printed in 1874 and were phased out with the introduction of the Euro. [1]
The banknotes of the Spanish peseta were emitted by the Bank of Spain in 1874–2001 until the introduction of the euro. From 1940 the banknotes were produced by the Royal Mint (Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre).
Spain's adoption of the peseta in 1869 and its joining the Latin Monetary Union meant the effective end of the last vestiges of the Spanish dollar in Spain itself. However, the 5-peseta coin (or duro) was slightly smaller and lighter but was also of high purity (90%) silver.
Peseta may refer to: Catalan peseta, a former currency of Catalonia; Equatorial Guinean peseta, a former currency of Equatorial Guinea; Peruvian peseta, a former currency of Peru; Sahrawi peseta, the de jure currency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic; Spanish peseta, a former currency of Spain Banknotes of the Spanish peseta
The Bank of Spain (Spanish: Banco de España, pronounced [ˈbaŋko ðe esˈpaɲa]) is Spain's central bank and the Spanish member of the Eurosystem and has been the monetary authority for Spain from 1874 to 1998, issuing the Spanish peseta. Since 2014, it has also been Spain's national competent authority within European Banking Supervision. [3 ...
On 14 April, two days after the kidnapping, the kidnappers asked for the sum of 150 million Spanish pesetas for the "liberation" of Segura. [9] This was the first of the 15 calls that were made to the family, [4] who named the attorney Rafael Escuredo as their mediator. [2]
The Catalan peseta (in Catalan: peceta; pl. pecetes) was a unit of currency in Catalonia until 1850, when the whole of Spain decimalized. It was also a name used throughout Spain for an amount of four reales de vellón. It was coined in Barcelona in gold and silver from 1808 until 1814, under the Napoleonic government. [1]