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The coins circulated throughout Spain's colonies and beyond, with the eight-real piece, known in English as the Spanish dollar, becoming an international standard and spawning, among other currencies, the United States dollar. A reform in 1737 set the silver real at two and half billon reales (reales de vellón) or eighty-five maravedís.
Prior to this was the Silver escudo (1865–1869), Gold escudo (1535/1537–1849), Spanish real ... Spanish dollar; Spanish euro coins; References
The 1566 reform also provided for a silver 8-real coin, the real de a ocho or peso duro (which had already been minted in Spain in limited number). This coin, 39–40 mm, 27·468 g, containing 25·561 g pure silver, was now struck in the Indies, at Lima from 1568 and at Mexico City from 1572.
Silver real coined in Seville during the reign of Peter I of Castile (1350–1369). Spanish 1799 silver 8 reales, Charles IV (reverse) The first real was introduced by King Pedro I of Castile in the mid 14th century, with 66 minted from a Castilian mark of silver (230.0465 grams) in a fineness of 134 ⁄ 144 (0.9306), and valued of 3 maravedíes.
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