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 the ...

Long before the US Dollar became the dominant currency of the modern world, there was another coin that ruled global trade, going across oceans and continents with quite an important influence. This ...

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 de ...

When Long John Silver's parrot of Treasure Island fame squawked, "Pieces of eight, pieces of eight" he was referring to an ancestor of the peseta - the Spanish currency now being replaced by the euro.

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 ...

The currency used in the United States is the ' dollar ', but the dollar is represented by the symbol ' $ ' and contains an uppercase 'S'. There is no 'S' anywhere in the letter 'dollar'. Why is the ...

This symbol first showed up in the 1770s, appearing in documents of English-Americans who had business dealings with Spanish-Americans. However, it wasn’t until the very early 1800s that it became ...