Peso

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The peso (Spanish: "weight") is a unit of currency that originated in Spain and is now used by several former Spanish colonies. The peso coin weighed 27 grams and was of 92 percent pure silver.^{[citation needed]}

Today the term peso is sometimes used interchangeably to include the historic Spanish eight real coin (also called the Spanish dollar or colloquially "pieces of eight"), which was the main Spanish coin during colonial times. This is primarily because pesos were of similar weight and diameter to the eight real coin. However the term peso did not appear on Spanish coinage until 1864, and it is more accurate to refer to the older coinage as the eight real coin (or Spanish dollar, or "pieces of eight").

[edit] Pesos currently in circulation

• Argentine peso (ISO 4217: ARS)
• Chilean peso (CLP)
• Colombian peso (COP)
• Cuban peso (CUP)
• Cuban convertible peso (CUC)
• Dominican peso (DOP)
• Mexican peso (MXN, previously MXP)
• Philippine piso (PHP)
• Uruguayan peso (UYU)

[edit] Obsolete pesos

• Argentine peso moneda nacional
• Argentine peso ley
• Argentine peso argentino
• Bolivian peso
• Costa Rican peso
• Ecuadorian peso
• El Salvadoran peso
• Guatemalan peso
• Guinea Bissau peso
• Honduran peso
• Nicaraguan peso
• Paraguayan peso
• Spanish peso. The peso duro ("hard peso") gave origin to the unofficial name of the 5-pesetas coin, the duro.
• Venezuelan peso

v • d • e Currencies named peso or similar
Current	Argentine peso · Chilean peso · Colombian peso · Cuban peso · Cuban convertible peso · Dominican peso · Mexican peso · Philippine piso · Uruguayan peso
Defunct	Argentine peso moneda nacional · Argentine peso ley · Argentine peso argentino · Bolivian peso · Costa Rican peso · Ecuadorian peso · El Salvadoran peso · Guatemalan peso · Guinea Bissau peso · Honduran peso · Nicaraguan peso · Paraguayan peso · Puerto Rican peso · Spanish peso · Venezuelan peso