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Spanish peseta

Spanish peseta
Peseta española  (Spanish)
100 pesetas.png Spagna 200 pesetas Madrid Capitale Europea della Cultura.JPG
100 pesetas 200 pesetas – Madrid European Capital of Culture – 1992
ISO 4217
Code ESP
Denominations
Subunit
1100 céntimo (cent)
(because of inflation, céntimos were retired from circulation in 1983)
Symbol Pta (plural Ptas), or ₧ (rare, see article)
Nickname perra chica (0.05 Pta),
perra gorda (0.10 Pta),
pela (1 Pta),
duro (5 Pta),
talego (1,000 Pta),
kilo (1,000,000 Pta)
Banknotes
 Freq. used 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 Pta
 Rarely used 10,000 Pta
Coins
 Freq. used 5, 25, 50, 100, 500 Pta
 Rarely used 1, 10, 200 Pta
Demographics
User(s)  Andorra
Issuance
Central bank Bank of Spain
 Website www.bde.es
Printer Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
 Website www.fnmt.es
Mint Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
 Website www.fnmt.es
Valuation
Inflation 1.4%
 Source Cámara Guipúzcoa, 1998
ERM
 Since 19 June 1989
 Fixed rate since 31 December 1998
 Replaced by €, non cash 1 January 1999
 Replaced by €, cash 1 January 2002
= 166.386 Pta
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete.

The peseta (/pəˈstə/, Spanish: [peˈseta]) was the currency of Spain between 1869 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 name of the currency comes from pesseta, the diminutive form of the word peça, which is a Catalan word that means piece or fraction. The first non-official coins which contained the word "peseta" were made in 1808 in Barcelona.

Traditionally, there was never a single symbol or special character for the Spanish peseta. Common abbreviations were "Pt", "Pta", "Pts" and "Ptas", and even using superior letters: "Ptas".

Common earlier Spanish models of mechanical typewriters had the expression "Pts" on a single type head, as a shorthand intended to fill a single type space (Pts) in tables instead of three (P+t+s).


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