Peso is the name of the currency of various countries:
In SpanishThis article is about the international language known as Spanish. For other languages spoken in Spain see Languages of Spain Spanish is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language in the world. It is spoken as a first langua "peso" means weight.
Spanish is – or was, in the case of the Philippines – spoken in all these countries.
The main Spanish coin of colonial times was a piece worth eight reales. This is the famous " piece of eight" and later became called the peso. The peso coin weighed 27 grams and was of 92 per cent pure silver. It was the template for the coins of the United States and one silver dollar equaled exactly one peso.
Spanish pesos circulated throughout the European colonies in the AmericasThe Americas (sometimes referred to as America is the area including the land mass located between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, generally divided into North America and South America. The term also usually includes the Caribbean, the islands. They were also later used in the independent United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, where they continued to be legal tender until they were demonetized in 1857.
PortuguesePortuguese portugues is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor. With more than 200 million native speakers, Portuguese is one of the few languages spoken in such widely-distributed parts-speaking Guinea-BissauThe Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country on the Atlantic coast of western Africa. The small country, a former Portuguese colony, is bounded on the north by Senegal, to the south and east by Guinea, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Its capital is B previously used pesos (GWP) prior to adopting the CFA francThe CFA franc (in French: franc CFA or just franc in everyday conversation) is a currency used in 12 formerly French-ruled African countries, as well as in Guinea-Bissau (former Portuguese colony) and in Equatorial Guinea (former Spanish colony). CFA stoo (XOF) upon accession to the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) on 1 May 1997.
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