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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Currency Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing unique monetary signs. Many currency signs can be found in other Unicode blocks, especially when the currency symbol is unique to a country that uses a script not generally used outside that country.
Spanish euro coins feature three different designs for each of the three series of coins.The minor series of 1, 2, and 5 cent coins were designed by Garcilaso Rollán, the middle series of 10, 20, and 50 cent coins by Begoña Castellanos, and the two major coins feature the portrait of King Felipe VI of Spain.
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