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real

レアル　—　Names of money

The unit of the Spanish silver coinage.

Eight reales of Potosí Eight reales of Potosí1556–1598 (Philip II) Clipped 4 Reales Clipped 4 Reales16th century Eight reales Eight realesc. AD 1600
A photograph of the real thing this term names.

A large silver coin equivalent to eight of these was the Spanish dollar that circulated the globe. ⚠ The division by "eight" had the practical advantage of being easy to partition into halves, quarters, and eighths.