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The peseta linked its value with the euro coin on 1 January 1999, and hit rock bottom that year when Pts 200 were required to buy US$1. [15] At the time Euro became a material coin, Pts 185.29 were needed to buy US$1, that is, 1.1743 euros. [16] The peseta was replaced by the euro in 2002, [17] following the establishment of the euro in 1999 ...
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 ] Prior to this was the Silver escudo (1865–1869), Gold escudo (1535/1537–1849), Spanish real (mid-14th century–1865), Maravedí (11th–14th century), and ...
By the mid 18th century the piece of eight was commonly known in British North America as the Spanish dollar. Colloquial terms used in New Spain were: pataca for the peso (real de a ocho), tostón for the medio peso (4 reales), and peseta for the 2 reales.
The film was a financial success in Spain, [24] totaling 2,924,836 admissions [1] and becoming the highest-grossing film in Spain at the time, grossing 45 million Spanish pesetas (roughly $640,000 U.S. dollars at the time) in its first six months and 83 million pesetas by the end of the year.
Variety reported a gross of 577.6 million Pesetas ($3.4 million) for Gone With the Wind in 1986. [18] The official gross since 1965 at that date was 455.9 million Pesetas, [19] which suggests a gross of 121.7 million Pesetas prior to 1965.
Initially this dollar was comparable to the 371–373 grains found in circulating Spanish dollars and aided in its exportation overseas. [14] The restoration of the old 0.9028 fineness in the Mexican peso after 1821, however, increased the latter's silver content to 24.44 g and reduced the export demand for U.S. dollars.
The second decimal currency of 1864, with a new silver escudo worth 1 ⁄ 2 dollar, 10 reales de vellón or 100 céntimos de escudo (not equivalent to the gold escudo). The real was only retired completely with the introduction in 1868 of the Spanish peseta, at par with the French franc, and at the rate of 1 dollar = 20 reales = 5 pesetas ...
[55] [56] A few days after the extraction of the gold from the Bank of Spain, Bank functionaries retrieved the Bank's silver, valued at a total of 656,708,702.59 Spanish pesetas of the time, [57] which was later sold to the United States and France between June 1938 and July 1939 for a sum slightly more than 20 million U.S. dollars of the time ...