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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.
Because the Spanish dollar was widely used in Europe, the Americas, and the Far East, it became the first world currency by the 16th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Spanish dollar was the coin upon which the original United States dollar was based (at 0.7735 troy ounces or 24.06 grams), and it remained legal tender in the United States until the ...
All de facto present currencies in Europe, and an incomplete list of the preceding currency, are listed here. In Europe, the most commonly used currency is the euro (used by 25 countries); any country entering the European Union (EU) is expected to join the eurozone [1] when they meet the five convergence criteria. [2]
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.
The real (English: /ɹeɪˈɑl/ Spanish: /reˈal/) (meaning: "royal", plural: reales) was a unit of currency in Spain for several centuries after the mid-14th century. [1] It underwent several changes in value relative to other units throughout its lifetime until it was replaced by the peseta in 1868.
The silver real (Spanish: real de plata) was the currency of the Spanish colonies in America and the Philippines. In the seventeenth century the silver real was established at two billon reales (reales de vellón) or sixty-eight maravedíes. Gold escudos (worth 16 reales) were also issued.
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