half-reals

Updated: May 11, 2025

Let these five go for the odd ones, and let us come to the three thousand three hundred, which at a quartillo apiece and I will not take less if all the world bid me they make three thousand three hundred quartillos, of which three thousand make fifteen hundred half-reals, which amounts to seven hundred and fifty reals; and the three hundred remaining make an hundred and fifty half-reals, and three-score and fifteen reals; put that with the seven hundred and fifty, and it comes altogether to eight hundred and twenty-five reals.

Eva March Tappan - The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites

The method of keeping accounts in the shops which, it is to be remembered, are almost always kept by white or half-white people, hardly ever by Indians is primitive enough. Here is a score which I copied, the hieroglyphics standing for dollars, half-dollars, medios or half-reals, cuartillos or quarter-reals, and tlacos or clacos which are eighths of a real, or about 3/4d.

Edward Burnett Tylor - Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern