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Updated: June 21, 2025
Native houses of the poorer classes are very slightly built, of four or six uprights, with bamboo floors and thatched roof and sides, the whole tied together with rattan. They are very safe in earthquakes. "Honorable people." Malapad a copper piece worth about eighty to the peso or 0.0125 Mexican dollars. Sec-apat a real or one eighth of a peso. Pallok rice pot of earthenware.
"Only a peso" that is a dollar "and it seemed hardly worth talking about; but you'd have thought it was a hundred." "Perhaps it seemed a large amount to him," ventured Billie. "Perhaps," admitted Don Esteban. "But be that as it may, I should like to see the man again, and especially would I like to know where he got that old dollar." "Why?" "Because it may have come out of that box."
For the prospective purchaser the doubts surrounding the title to comunero lands are enhanced by the existence of fraudulent "peso" titles and by the destruction of public offices where title transfers should have been recorded.
He took back the tapis and she hasn't returned the peso yet, but I don't pay her when she wins at panguingui, abá! In that way I've collected twelve cuartos, and for that alone I'm going to play with her. I can't bear to have people fail to pay what they owe me, abá!"
After long discussion, Congress authorized, by an act passed March 2, 1903, a new currency system based on a theoretical peso of 12.9 grains of gold 900 fine, equivalent to one-half of a United States gold dollar.
Frank laughter arose; the gunner, with the red cap pressed against his hairy breast, and grinning with pleasure at his service, came at a run to restore to the great Sir Francis his property. Drake, whom the mere soldier and mariner idolized, found for the gunner both a peso of silver and jesting thanks; then, when he had donned the cap, turned and loudly called to the passing company.
I believe I'll have Manuel get me a riding outfit, if he will. Maybe I'll take you up on that rodeo proposition. Reckon your old don will give me a job?" "Won't cost a peso to find out," said Dade, coming out and standing beside him in the sun. "I've been talking to Manuel, and he thinks we'd better pull out right away.
No, thou didst mistake. It was not THAT he meant?" "Thy life to a quarter peso that the little Faquita does not mistake," said the evident satirist of the household. "Trust to Gomez' muchacha to understand a proposal."
Civil Guard: Internal quasi-military police force of Spanish officers and native soldiers. cochero: Carriage driver, coachman. cuarto: A copper coin, one hundred and sixty of which were equal in value to a silver peso. filibuster: A native of the Philippines who was accused of advocating their separation from Spain. filibusterism: See filibuster.
Charles A. Conant had been brought from the United States to make a report on the feasibility of providing an American coinage for the islands. He recommended that the unit of value should be a peso, equivalent to fifty cents United States currency.
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