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From: "Donald Pennell" <>
Subject: [[SAR-TALK]] Re: Greg Bozarth Query/ Value of Spanish Money
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 03:00:18 -0500


Greg: If you or any others can add to your answers, I would greatly
appreciate knowing the equivalent values of the following monies both then
and now: King Carlos III gave, as a request by the Spanish diplomat Juan de
Miralles through Diego Cardoqui and the Duke of La Alcukdia, from 1776-1778
7,944,906 reales, and 16 maravedis de vellon to our congress: 284,480 to the
Commander of the Navy in South Carolina. The Count of Galvez gave 1,399,220
reales. The public subscription of Havana totaled six million reales de
velllon given to John Jay. The Governonr of Havana gave 9,612 pesos de oro
to the Continental Congress. Some of this was a gift and some a loan

In return our congress returned only 1,74011 pesos fuertes, leaving an
unpaid balance of seven million reales de vellon, which was never paid back.

I would be most interested in the equivalent of those sums in either pounds
of dollars in the eighteen century and their current value today. Thanks a
lot. Don Pennell, NSSAR Ambassador. .
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