Spain

The Spanish dollar or eight real coin was the first global currency. Mined from silver in Mexico and...

The famous Spanish gold coin, worth 2 escudos or 4 dollars. Minted from gold looted from the America...

The escudo was both a gold and copper coin denomination in Spain and its colonies. The gold escudo w...

Replaced the escudo after the Spanish Revolution of 1868. The name comes from pesseta meaning small ...

The columnarios or pillar dollar, featuring two columns representing the Pillars of Hercules wrapped...

See Spanish 8 Reales. The pillar dollar was so widely accepted that it circulated in the American co...

A debased silver or copper coin used for small transactions in Spain and its colonies. The vellon sy...

A half real copper coin used in Spain and its colonies. The medio was the smallest silver denominati...

See Spanish Piece of Eight. The real de a ocho was the formal name for the eight real coin. The term...

A small copper coin worth one quarter of a maravedi. The cuarto was the lowest denomination coin in ...

See Spanish Escudo entry. The 8 escudos gold coin was equivalent to the doubloon and was the largest...

A large copper coin minted during the Napoleonic era in Spain. The millonet was worth one thousandth...