Old Spanish silver coins

Usage examples of reales.

I was so taken by the singular dazzle of a flashing gold tooth, I almost missed him rubbing the two reales between his thumb and fingers.

Two reales was a day's wage for grown men and more than I'd ever possessed at one time in my whole life.

The rogue who'd slipped me two reales to messenger the love note was also there.

The only nourishment available, without spending my treasure of two reales and a few cocoa beans, was pulque.

There was pulque to steal, and if I could no longer go without solid food, I could use one of my reales to buy enough tortillas and carne to last several days.

I had two reales in my pocket, obtained from the autor of the comedia itself.

The freed slave who owned the building and charged exorbitant rents, extorting one out of every three reales from the putas and sugarcane hucksters he boarded, clearly did not bother with repairs.

The silver reales ranged in size from a quarter reale to eight reales, popularly known as pieces of eight.

For the price of five reales, people could look into the telescope and see the gypsy woman an arm’s length away.

They insisted so much that José Arcadio Buen­día paid the thirty reales and led them into the center of the tent, where there was a giant with a hairy torso and a shaved head, with a copper ring in his nose and a heavy iron chain on his ankle, watching over a pirate chest.

Without knowing what to say, he paid ten reales more so that his sons could have that prodigious experi­ence.