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The currency of the Philippines & Mexico share this name; they were stops on a galleon trade route in the 1600s |
the peso
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$800 |
DJ |
CURRENCIES |
2025-03-03 |
#9281 |
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The front of the 1 this coin says, "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" |
a peso
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$200 |
J |
ONE FOR THE MONEY |
2024-05-23 |
#9109 |
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The Philippines, with a Spanish heritage, uses this as its basic unit of currency |
a peso
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$400 |
DJ |
WORLD CURRENCIES |
2022-05-04 |
#8633 |
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In Mexico, the name of this currency also means "weight," as in a weight of precious metal |
peso
|
$400 |
DJ |
FOREIGN MONEY |
2019-01-21 |
#7911 |
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Spain no longer uses this unit of currency, but Chile & Cuba still do |
the peso
|
$800 |
DJ |
UNDERSTANDING MONEY |
2018-11-14 |
#7863 |
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Argentina |
the peso
|
$800 |
DJ |
NATIONAL CURRENCY UNITS |
2016-09-29 |
#7369 |
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains with an animated illustration on the monitor.) The most common theory of the origin of the dollar sign is that instead of writing Ps as a plural, people started putting the S over the P; the P stood for this |
peso
|
$1,000 |
J |
ON THE MONEY |
2008-11-11 |
#5562 |
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In February 2002 this Argentine currency began floating, a sign the economy was sinking |
the peso
|
$400 |
DJ |
ECONOMICS |
2007-03-13 |
#5187 |
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Chile, the Philippines & Argentina all use this common unit of currency |
peso
|
$400 |
DJ |
GIMME SOME MONEY |
2002-06-19 |
#4113 |
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The currency of Cuba |
peso
|
$400 |
J |
FOREIGN CURRENCY |
1992-10-28 |
#1873 |
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As of July 1991, 1 Italian lira was worth almost 2 1/2 of this Mexican unit |
the peso
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$100 |
J |
MONEY |
1991-12-05 |
#1674 |
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You'd use bills in this monetary unit to buy a tuba in Cuba or magazines in the Philippines |
the peso
|
$400 |
J |
MONEY |
1987-11-16 |
#736 |
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Spanish for "weight", it's the basic monetary unit of Mexico |
peso
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$200 |
DJ |
MONEY |
1987-06-03 |
#648 |