peseta

• Fabregas by far or is someone giving him a run for his peseta?
• This peseta (quarter) only shows that some Puerto Ricans are very proud of being under a colonial rule, that is a sad thing because it shows a terrible lack of self esteem and a sick complex of inferiority. —  VivirLatino
• A peseta is the legal unit of the currency, and is of the same value as the French franc and the Italian lira, or nineteen cents, three mills of our money, as estimated by the director of the United States Mint. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
• The real is a quarter of a peseta, but the escudo of ten reales has been suppressed. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
• "Doggone, they'd sit there when their watch was over, six or eight of 'em, and play some cross-eyed Spanish card-game for a peseta a corner. —  The U-boat hunters

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