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From the Buenos Aires Herald, the city's "English" language newspaper:
Banks continued to ease the restrictions on frozen bank deposits yesterday but the process was marked by a series of glitches. The Central Bank ruled late Tuesday that as of yesterday depositors could swap up to 5,000 dollars in their accounts into pesos at the official exchange rate of 1.40 pesos to the dollar. However numerous banks were unable to pesify the deposits, alleging that the Central Bank had issued the ruling too late the night before for them to modify their systems.
Pesify - to exchange dollars for pesos.
Any other currency-based verbs? I'll add that the current crisis in Argentina was intensified by the Government's decision to "de-dollarize" their currency. The value of the peso had been pegged to that of the dollar (dollarized) since the early '90s.
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pesify ... de-dollarize
I love it. We are so fortunate to be living in such an exciting period in the development of our rigorous and flexible language.
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I'll betcha dollars to drachmas that pesify and de-dollarize are direct translations of Spanish coinages.
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direct translations of Spanish coinages
As are so many of the usages that make our great language the powerful force in international linguistics that it is today. Not necessarily Spanish loan translations, but loan translations from whatever language sails across our bow.
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loan translations yep - so all we can do is note these coinages with interest 
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While Faldage is busy with his nits, let me thank you for seeing and raising the pun, Mav. 
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Argentina must have a coin called a crux, because so many people there are getting crucified.
The coin could have gotten its name from the character of their politicians.
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loan translations
yep - so all we can do is note these coinages with interest
And so it grows.
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I wishi you'd all stop capitalising on (each) other's financial and linguistic misfortunes and faux pas!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Why CK! I would think that a capital Kiwi would find it of great interest, although somewhat unprincipled. Let's not discount it arbitrally. [seeking literary ref. to "John Dos Pesos" -e]
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