Riddle of the hidden pesos.

After long discussion, Congress authorized, by an act passed March 2, 1903, a new currency system based on a theoretical peso of 12.9 grains of gold 900 fine, equivalent to one-half of a United States gold dollar.

He recommended that the unit of value should be a peso, equivalent to fifty cents United States currency.

Some of them combined to buy an emaciated, starving dog, paying its owner a number of golden pesos or castellanos.