What other place in the world is the money called pesos other than Mexico?

Answer 1

Peso

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The peso is a unit of currency. In Spanish “peso” means weight.

It was the main Spanish coin of colonial times and it was worth eight reales.

This is the famous Spanish dollar or “piece of eight” and later became called the peso.

The peso coin weighed 27 grams and was of 92 per cent pure silver.

It was the template for the coins of the United States and one silver dollar equaled exactly one peso.

The following articles contain more information (list may not contain all historical pesos):


http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peso

Answer 2

Other countries using Pesos:

Argentina Peso (ARS)
Chilean Peso (CLP)
Columbian Peso (COP)
Cuban Peso (CUP)
Dominican Republic Peso (DOP)
Philippine Peso (PHP)
Uruguayan New Peso (UYU)

Hope this helps

Answer 3

No other places use pesos for money because they dont want to be as poor and the mexicans so they change the name of thier money so they sound richer. Most other names and FRAZZLE SNAZZLE. This is because the name makes all the kids jump around.(mook)

Answer 4

Here they are:

Argentina
Chile
Colombia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Philippines
Uruguay