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The real was the currency of the
The real was the currency of the Federal Republic of Central America
The Federal Republic of Central America ( es, República Federal de Centroamérica), originally named the United Provinces of Central America ( es, Provincias Unidas del Centro de América), and sometimes simply called Central America, in it ...
from 1824 to 1838/1841. Sixteen silver reales equaled one gold ''escudo'', and 8 reales equaled one peso. The Central American Republic's real replaced the Spanish colonial real
The silver real ( es, real de plata) was the currency of the Spanish colonies in America and the Philippines. In the seventeenth century the silver real was established at two billon reals (''reales de vellón'') or sixty-eight ''maravedís'' ...
at par and continued to circulate and be issued after the constituent states left the Central American Republic. The currency was replaced by the Costa Rican real, Salvadoran peso, Guatemalan peso, Honduran real and Nicaraguan peso.
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Currencies of Central America Modern obsolete currencies 19th-century economic history Federal Republic of Central America Currencies of Nicaragua Currencies of Honduras Currencies of Guatemala 1824 establishments in Central America {{CentralAm-stub