The peso (Spanish: "weight" in Portuguese too) 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").

The peseta is also a unit of currency whose name may be a diminutive of peso.

The pataca (圓) is a unit of currency which means peso in Portuguese.

Currencies named peso or similar
Circulating	Argentine peso · Chilean peso · Colombian peso · Cuban convertible peso · Cuban peso · Dominican peso (peso oro) · Macanese pataca (圓) · Mexican peso · Philippine peso (piso) · Uruguayan peso
Obsolete	Argentine peso argentino · Argentine peso ley · Argentine peso moneda corriente · Argentine peso moneda nacional · Bolivian peso · Catalan peseta (pesseta) · Costa Rican peso · Ecuadorian peso · Equatorial Guinean peseta · Guatemalan peso · Guinea Bissau peso · Honduran peso · Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso · Nicaraguan peso · Paraguayan peso · Peruvian peseta · Portuguese Timorese pataca · Puerto Rican peso · Salvadoran peso · Spanish peso · Spanish peseta (pesseta, pezeta) · Venezuelan peso
See also	Peso sign · Maltese pataca (coin)

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Translations: Translations for: Peso

Dansk (Danish)
n. - peso

Nederlands (Dutch)
peso

Français (French)
n. - peso

Deutsch (German)
n. - Peso

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (νόμισμα) πέσο

Italiano (Italian)
peso

Português (Portuguese)
n. - peso (m)

Русский (Russian)
песо (латино-амер. денежная единица)

Español (Spanish)
n. - peso

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - peso (Sydam. mynt)

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
比索

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 比索

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 페소, 1페소 경화[지폐]

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ペソ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بيزة : وحدة النقد الأمريكيو والفلبينيه اللاتينيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮פזו (מטבע באמריקה הלטינית ובפיליפינים)‬

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