Spanish real

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historical currency silver coin

The Spanish real was a silver coin and monetary unit widely used across the Spanish Empire, serving as a key medium of exchange in Spain and its American colonies from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Spanish real canonical	19
Spanish colonial real	2

Statements (32)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical currency ⓘ silver coin ⓘ
circulationArea	Americas ⓘ Caribbean ⓘ Europe ⓘ
country	Spain ⓘ
currencyOf	Spain ⓘ
denominationSystem	real ⓘ
endTime	19th century ⓘ
historicalRole	key medium of exchange in the Spanish Empire ⓘ
legalStatus	legal tender in Spain ⓘ legal tender in Spanish colonies ⓘ
material	silver ⓘ
metallicStandard	silver standard ⓘ
mintedIn	Spanish mints ⓘ colonial mints in the Americas ⓘ
monetaryFunction	circulating coin ⓘ unit of account ⓘ
precededBy	medieval Castilian coinage ⓘ
replacedBy	Spanish peseta ⓘ
startTime	Late Middle Ages ⓘ surface form: late Middle Ages
subunitOf	Spanish monetary system ⓘ
usedAs	medium of exchange ⓘ monetary unit ⓘ
usedIn	Spain ⓘ Spanish America ⓘ Spanish Empire ⓘ Spanish colonies ⓘ
usedInPeriod	Bourbon Spain ⓘ Habsburg Spain ⓘ
usedInTrade	American colonial trade ⓘ Atlantic trade ⓘ

Referenced by (21)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Captaincy General of Chile → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Colombian real → basedOn → Spanish real ⓘ

Audiencia of Quito → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Habsburg Spain → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Captaincy General of Venezuela → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

New Kingdom of Granada → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Catalan pound → replacedBy → Spanish real ⓘ

New Galicia → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Royal Mint of Potosí → currencyMinted → Spanish real ⓘ

Captaincy General of the Philippines → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

maravedí → replacedBy → Spanish real ⓘ

Nuevo Reino de León → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Venezuelan peso → precededBy → Spanish real ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish colonial real

Venezuelan peso → relatedTo → Spanish real ⓘ

Governorate of Paraguay → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Spanish escudo → predecessorCurrency → Spanish real ⓘ

Mexican real → precededBy → Spanish real ⓘ

Mexican real → relatedCurrency → Spanish real ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish colonial real

Governorate of the Río de la Plata → currency → Spanish real ⓘ

Castilla del Oro → currency → Spanish real ⓘ