Wiktionary
n. (context economics English) capital that is not financial capital, such as shovels for gravediggers, sewing machines for tailors, or machinery for manufacturing firms.
Usage examples of "real capital".
The real capital of Powys was Caer Dolforwyn, a fine hill topped by a royal stone, but Caer Dolforwyn, like Caer Cadarn, had neither the water nor the space to accommodate a kingdom's law court, treasury, armouries, kitchens and storehouses, and so just as Dumnonia's day-to-day business was conducted from Lindinis, so the government of Powys functioned out of Caer Sws and only in times of danger or at high royal festivals did Gorfyddyd's court move down the river to Caer Dolforwyn's commanding summit.
The flood of paper money, as you well know, had produced an exaggeration of nominal prices and at the same time a facility of obtaining money, which not only encouraged speculations on fictitious capital, but seduced those of real capital, even in private life, to contract debts too freely.
Well, out of the five or six millions which form your real capital, you have just lost nearly two millions, which must, of course, in the same degree diminish your credit and fictitious fortune.
The real capital of the empire was located even farther south, but the Greatest Noble was staying, for the nonce, in a city nestled high in the mountains, well inland from the seacoast.
Of course, the stock in his room didn't represent all of his real capital, but since he couldn't admit what his real capital was he couldn't draw on it.
It looks identical to a charge card, only it's pure white: Insert it into any bank computer system and you will be credited with large sums of real capital.