The peseta first came into circulation in 1868 when it replaced the peso and Spain considered joining the Latin Monetary Union system. Notes going back to 1939 – when the Spanish Civil War ended ...

When the Spanish currency, the peseta, went out of circulation in 2002 to be replaced by the euro, Isabel Gonzalez, now 49, put aside 1,700 pesetas, or 10.2 euros ($11.8) to keep as a memory of ...

Getting a wallet full of different money was, well, part of the fun of going on holiday in Europe a few decades ago. Odd-looking and slightly exotic peseta, escudo, guilder, lire and franc notes ...

More than 60 shops in the fishing village on the rugged Galician coast have agreed to accept pesetas alongside the euro in an attempt to encourage spending during a time of economic crisis.

He realized that Spain’s most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of ...

An enterprising Spanish village is re-establishing the peseta (the former Spanish currency) in a bid to boost the local economy. The initiative started in January, after the locals in Villamayor ...

A small town in northern Spain has decided to reintroduce the old Spanish currency - the peseta - alongside the euro to give the local economy a lift. Shopkeepers in Mugardos want anyone with ...