Spanish currency unit from 1868 to 2002

Usage examples of peseta.

Rather foolishly I reported this to the officer, and one of the scallywags I have already mentioned promptly came forward and said quite untruly that twenty-five pesetas had been stolen from his bunk.

Jaime handed ten pesetas to the man next to him to be passed to the vendor.

Yes, I am about to offer you two hundred pounds - say three thousand pesetas - for the loan of that letter for a few hours only.

Three thousand pesetas will enable you to escape to Cuba if your schemes fail.

He had posted that letter in the box in the hotel lobby, having found some pesetas in his little treasury of tips and been able to buy stamps from the moustached duenna yawning with dignity at the reception desk.

He seemed not unwilling to change fifty pounds of Enderby's money, and Enderby wondered if the suspiciously clean pesetas he got were genuine.

He tested his pesetas in a dirty eating-den full of loud dialogue (the participants as far away from each other as possible: one man tooth-picking at the door, another hidden in the kitchen, for instance).

Enderby put pesetas on the table, leaving their apportionment to waiter and shoeblack, and then grabbed her arm.

He found 75 pesetas in cinco-duros coins, change from thetaxi—just enough for two local calls.

They parked the car at a cost of sixty pesetas and came to the entrance.

He had enjoyed the visit they had first paid to the house of Cervantes which had cost them fifty pesetas each (he wondered whether he might have enjoyed a free entry if he had given his name at the desk).

In fact, they say the best they can offer you to take care of the parties in the castle is two pesetas per head.

And I am also thinking that the only thing I can do is to accept the two pesetas per head offered by the characters behind the sandbags when a very beautiful young Judy, with long black hair hanging down her back, approaches and speaks to me at some length in the Spanish language.

Then there was an armpit wank for the bank manager, another soapy tit wank for the baker, hand jobs for innumerable old campasinos and ten thousand pesetas from the priest to let him watch her taking a piss in the orange groves.

Examining it closer he saw it was a Spanish one hundred pesetas piece, how had it come to be in his pocket?