Talk:Spanish real

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 * What needs doing re "attention"? Dove1950 18:32, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

While the Spanish real entry values the gold escudo at 16 reals, whereas, under the heading Spanish escudo, that currency is esteemed equal to only 10 reals. Each entry appears to intend, by "escudos" and "reals," that escudo and that real that Spain knew and used in 1566, at the escudo's introduction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.26.96.244 (talk) 21:50, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Terms that somebody could understand
My god, can somebody afford to say how much these coins weigh? Grains, grams, or ounces would be fine. You can be sure that whoever was minting them and any bank that stored them or traded in them was very conscious of how much they were supposed to weigh. Is this some kind of mystery, a secret, or unknowable? It is just about the most basic information about the topic. CountMacula (talk) 03:45, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

As far as I can read this, and it is very confusing, a silver peso weighed one ounce. But presumably that is one Troy ounce, not avoirdupois?

If a gold peso is worth 16 times that, then we can multiply the value of one ounce of silver by 16, and see what weight of gold that would buy.

John of Cromer in China (talk) mytime= Sun 22:30, wikitime= 14:30, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Early counterfeit Reales
Hi all, PatHadley (talk) here. I'm the Wikipedian-in-Residence at York Museums Trust (Project pages). I've been working with the numismatics curators uploading images of coins from the Middleham Hoard. The hoard itself is getting an article through AFC here but I wondered whether the photos of the counterfeit Eight Reales (pieces of eight) coins from the hoard might be useful here? The three coins are here Category:Counterfeit coins of Philip IV of Spain. Although we've yet to find a source for this theory,; the curator YMT Coins suspects that these would have been produced in the Spanish colonies and then stolen from Spanish-American merchants by English Pirates, eventually getting to Yorkshire through Liverpool or Hull. Fascinating stuff! I hope they're useful. Feel free to get in touch with any queries or other ways we might help. Cheers, PatHadley (talk) 13:27, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Other currencies named after the real
Many modern currencies called riyal or rial are named after the Spanish real. The wiki page on Saudi riyal mentions this. Therefore I feel that the Spanish real page should also mention the modern currencies that are named after it, ie Saudi riyal, Omani rial, Yemeni rial, Qatari rial, Moroccan rial, Tunisian rial. Vedabit (talk) 05:20, 11 August 2014 (UTC)


 * and Iranian rial 47.145.228.59 (talk) 07:20, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose merging Columnarios into this article. I think the content in the former can easily be explained in the context of this article, and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems.~ Pakbelang (talk) 14:20, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


 * definitely a good idea HelplessBystander (talk) 16:06, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Might Spanish colonial real be a better target? Klbrain (talk) 09:44, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Sure HelplessBystander (talk) 11:26, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 19:52, 6 August 2023 (UTC)