Spanish peseta

Spanish peseta
Peseta española  (Spanish)
100 pesetas 200 pesetas – Madrid European Capital of Culture – 1992
ISO 4217
Code	ESP
Denominations
Subunit
1⁄100	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)	Spain Spanish Guinea (1926–1968) Spanish Sahara (1884–1975)  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 (/pəˈseɪtə/, 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: "P^tas".

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).