[2] The word peseta has been known as early as 1737 to colloquially refer to the coin worth 2 reales provincial or 1⁄5 of a peso.

A common way of representing amounts of pesetas in print was using superior letters: "Pta" and "Pts".

Some spreadsheet software for PC under MS-DOS, as Lotus 1-2-3, employed this character as the peseta symbol in their Spanish editions.

In order to guarantee the interchange with previous encodings such as code page 437, the international standard Unicode includes this character as U+20A7 PESETA SIGN in its Currency Symbols block.

Other than that, the use of the "peseta symbol" standalone is extremely rare, and has been outdated since the adoption of the euro in Spain.

In Unicode 2.0 the reference glyph P with stroke was erroneously displayed as the only symbol for peseta[5] and was later corrected to the Pts ligature and a separate character code was added for the peso sign.

Currencies used in Spain before the peseta's introduction in 1868 include: The peseta, previously not a monetary unit but a colloquial name for the coin worth 1⁄5 of a peso, was formally introduced as a currency unit in 1868, at a time when Spain considered joining the Latin Monetary Union (LMU).

[10] Spain eventually decided not to formally join the LMU, although it did achieve alignment with the bloc.

The Spanish government captured all profits from minting duros (5-peseta coins) out of silver bought for less than Pts 5.

Spain's system where the silver duro trades at a premium above its metallic value due to relative scarcity is called the fiduciary standard.

[12] The political turbulence of the early twentieth century (especially during the years after the World War I) caused the monetary union to break up, although it was not until 1927 that it officially ended.

A series of coins was issued to commemorate the 1982 FIFA World Cup held in Spain.

In that year, a series of coins commemorating 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and Expo '92 in Seville were issued.

The peseta linked its value with the euro coin on 1 January 1999, and hit rock bottom that year when Pts 200 were required to buy US$1.

This would be adopted and sometimes abandoned intermittently during various times, and continued through to be used through the first years of Juan Carlos I's reign.

This dating system would be abandoned in the early 1980s anticipating a one-by-one redesign of each coin denomination.

The brass Pta 1 was sometimes nicknamed La Rubia (The Blonde), as it featured a woman's face in a gold-coloured alloy.

Following the end of the Civil War in 1939, the victorious Nationalist government introduced aluminium 5 cts and 10 cts in 1940 featuring a conquistador, followed by reduced size aluminium-bronze Pta 1 coins in 1944 featuring the state crest and national symbols.

During the Civil War, a number of local coinages were also issued by both Republican and Nationalist forces.

In the sport of 43-man squamish, developed in 1965 during the Francoist era and well before Spain's transition to the euro, gameplay commences with the toss of "a new Spanish peseta.

This preceded a wholesale redesign in all circulating Spanish coins and abandonment of the "star" dating system.

At the same time, the Pts 200 coin was made larger and included an identifiable edge with incuse lettering.

The obverse of the first three denominations feature Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, the 10, 20, and 50 cents depict Spanish poet-writer Miguel de Cervantes, and the 1 and 2 euros depict the effigy of King Juan Carlos I or King Felipe VI.

The final series of banknotes were introduced between 1982 and 1987 and remained legal tender until the introduction of the Euro.

Following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War on 17 July 1936, the Andorran General Council issued Decree No.

All notes feature the coat of arms of Andorra on the front, along with text in Catalan indicating the value and issuer.

Euro coins and notes were introduced on 1 January 2002, and on 1 March 2002 the peseta lost its legal tender status in Spain, and also in Andorra.

Peseta notes issued since 1939 and coins that were legal tender on 31 December 2001 remained exchangeable at any branch of the Spanish Central Bank until 30 June 2021.