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The weight of each castellano, a Castilian coin, is called a peso, and the entire sum, therefore, amounted to fifteen thousand castellanos. The castellano is a coin somewhat inferior to one thirtieth of a pound, but its value exceeds that of a golden ducat. This coin is peculiar to Castile, and is not minted in any other province.
We chase wild horse many days, more horse than I ever see on my life. I helpa lass more horse than I ever see on my life. I make tree tousand peso by my father's rancho." "Juan, I pass," declared Pan. "You've got my hand beat. Boys, let's unroll the tarps. It has been a sure enough riding day."
The army, by direction of the secretary of war, ceased to pay in United States money, and its paymasters were given credit at the Insular Treasury, where they obtained the necessary funds in Philippine currency. The government also authorized, in addition to the coinage of silver, the issuance of paper money in two, five, and ten peso notes.
"'When the contreebution-box which she's a tin plate comes chargin' by, I'm sorter noddin, I'm that weary. I notes the jingle of money, an' rouses up, allowin' mebby it's a jack-pot, I reckons. ""How hard be you-all in?" I says to the gent next to me, who's gone to the center for a peso. ""Dollar," says the gent.
Sebastian could hear his listener panting; her bloodless fingers were wrapped tightly around the bars above his head. "Yes! Go on." "There are ornaments, too. God knows they must have come from heaven, they are so beautiful; and pearls from the Caribbean as large as plums." "Are you speaking the truth?" "Every peso, every bar, every knickknack I have handled with my own hands.
Hay algunos que se mofarán de ellas, muchos que se encogerán de hombros, pero las mujeres no deben desalentarse por eso, porque ni la mofa ni el encogimiento de hombros son razones de peso.
"You mend my fence, I'll mend yours," is an ideal arrangement until you find it is "our fence" and doesn't need mending. To Landover, Block and other financial experts was delegated the power and authority to perfect a fair, impartial monetary system. First of all, they arbitrarily declared the dollar, the peso and the shilling to be without value.
In all sales the medium of exchange is entirely in coin. Paper will not be received by the Igorot. There is also the silver half peso, the peseta or one-fifth peso, and the half peseta. The latter two are not plentiful. The only other coin is the copper "sipen."
"Only last week," said Goodwin, with a smile, "a silver dollar was all you were asking for." "An evidence," said Blythe, flippantly, "that I was still virtuous though under heavy pressure. The wages of sin should be something higher than a peso worth forty-eight cents. Let's talk business. I am the villain in the third act; and I must have my merited, if only temporary, triumph.
And you can bet your last, lone peso, and consider it won, that MacRae meant every word when he said to old Hans Rutter: "We'll make them sweat blood for this." When we got down into the bottom Mac turned aside to the deep-worn trail and glanced sharply down at the ruts. The dust in them lay smooth, and the hoof-marks that showed were old and dim.
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