"The judge's wife once sold me her tapis for a peso, but her husband said that the sale did not hold because it hadn't received his approval.

He took back the tapis and she hasn't returned the peso yet, but I don't pay her when she wins at panguingui, abá!

Instead of joining the panguingui where the stake is a half peso, I Ve gone only where it's a half real, enduring the bad smells and the dirty cards.

pesar, m., grief, sorrow; á de (adv.), despite, in spite of, notwithstanding. peso, m., weight; á su , by its own weight.

The next day he borrowed the salop again and the coin stuck in the bottom was half a peso, and the third day the coin was a peso, but these he assured the king were of no more consequence to his master than the copper.

The next day he borrowed the salop again and the coin stuck in the bottom was half a peso, and the third day the coin was a peso, but these he assured the king were of no more consequence to his master than the copper.

The next day she went to work and on this day she found a silver peso.

Afterwards she went to the field, and daily she found a peso until she had five pesos, which she hid in a safe place.

It was of course from Señor Rey: May I trouble you, my really delightful friend (it read), not to bestow any favors larger than a peso upon my servants?

Here's a peso for you.

The islands under the sovereignty of Spain had their own distinct silver coinage in peso, media peso, peseta and media peseta pieces.

The islands under the sovereignty of Spain had their own distinct silver coinage in peso, media peso, peseta and media peseta pieces.

When the American troops arrived, there were in circulation the Spanish-Philippine peso and subsidiary silver coins; Spanish pesos of different mintings; Mexican pesos of different mintings; Hongkong dollars, fractional silver coins from different Chinese countries, and copper coins from nearly every country in the Orient.

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

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.

The circulating medium was to be the Philippine silver peso, which was to be legal tender for all debts, public and private, and its value was to be maintained on a parity with the theoretical gold peso.

The circulating medium was to be the Philippine silver peso, which was to be legal tender for all debts, public and private, and its value was to be maintained on a parity with the theoretical gold peso.

The business men of Manila, and especially the Chinese, discounted the new Philippine peso, because it did not contain as much silver as did the Mexican dollar.

The government also authorized, in addition to the coinage of silver, the issuance of paper money in two, five, and ten peso notes.

All of the coins and bills were readily interchangeable with the United States coins in common use, the dollar being worth two pesos, the half dollar one peso, the twenty-five cent piece a half peso, the ten-cent piece a peseta, the five-cent piece a media peseta and the cent two centavos.

All of the coins and bills were readily interchangeable with the United States coins in common use, the dollar being worth two pesos, the half dollar one peso, the twenty-five cent piece a half peso, the ten-cent piece a peseta, the five-cent piece a media peseta and the cent two centavos.

Unfortunately the silver value of the new peso was such that when the price of silver again rose, its bullion value was greater than its money value, and in consequence coins of this denomination were hoarded and exported.

The gold was smelted and assayed, and found to be 450 maravedis per peso fine, which was not as fine as the gold obtained in la Española, but sufficiently so for the king of Spain's purposes, for he wrote to Ponce in November, 1509: "I have seen your letter of August 16th.

In the Ajuga there were 4000 pesos of gold belonging to the admiral, each peso being worth eight shillings.

a moment ago *rayado* (pp. of *rayar*) striped *rayo* m. thunderbolt; flash of lightning *raza* f. race *razón* f. right; reason; *tener * be right; *tener mil es* be perfectly right; be a thousand times right *real* m. real (one fourth of a peseta in Spanish money, equivalent to about five cents; in Mexico a real is one eighth of a peso, or about six cents); adj.