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The name of the currency derives from peceta, a Catalan word meaning little piece, from of the Catalan word peça (lit. piece, "coin"). Its etymology has wrongly been attributed to the Spanish peso. [2] The word peseta has been known as early as 1737 to colloquially refer to the coin worth 2 reales provincial or 1 ⁄ 5 of a peso.
Coins of 100 pesetas (also known as 20 duros) and 2000 pesetas in silver were then minted to commemorate the peseta, and the same image was represented as when it was born: the allegory of Hispania based on Hadrian's model but with a mural crown, exactly as it was reborn in the 19th century together with the Peseta.
The word derived from the Latin centimus [1] meaning "hundredth part". The main Spanish currency, before the euro , was the peseta which was divided into 100 céntimos. In Portugal it was the real and later the escudo , until it was also replaced by the euro.
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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).