← Read the currency articleSpanish escudo —1864 account unit: research record
Evidence coverage: 1864–1870. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
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Spanish escudo —1864 account unit
CUR-V28-SPANISH-ESCUDO · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1864–1870; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
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Earlier account evidenceThe ministerial exposition explicitly replaces the current principal real with the escudo of 10 reales; enacted articles 1 and 6 establish escudo and public-account use.
Sources and qualifications → Earlier account evidenceRoyalOrder 8 March 1865 requires escudo amounts in overseas public accounts and documents from 1 July 1865, regardless of delayed coin changes.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1864supportedLaw establishes escudo unit and public-account denomination.
C1744 1864supportedThe ministerial exposition explicitly replaces the current principal real with the escudo of 10 reales; enacted articles 1 and 6 establish escudo and public-account use.
C1934 1865supportedRoyalOrder 8 March 1865 requires escudo amounts in overseas public accounts and documents from 1 July 1865, regardless of delayed coin changes.
C1935
Evidence & research notes 5 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C1744
Law establishes escudo unit and public-account denomination.
Spanish legislature · Law of26 June 1864 Citation S931 ·
Open source ↗arts1,6
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1801
Existing escudo ordinary payment amounts are discharged in pesetas at0.4 escudo per peseta;public books convert in 1870. Specie-specific contracts retain statutory adjustments.
Spanish Ministry of Finance · Decree23 March 1869 Citation S933 ·
Open source ↗arts1–3
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
OCR private-transaction year corrupt;omit it pending image transcription.
Supported C1934
The ministerial exposition explicitly replaces the current principal real with the escudo of 10 reales; enacted articles 1 and 6 establish escudo and public-account use.
Spanish Ministry of Finance, Pedro Salaverría · Exposition and monetary bill submitted to Cortes,10May 1864 Citation S995 ·
Open source ↗Mayexpositionp1;Junelawarts1,6
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Spanish legislature · Law of26 June 1864 Citation S931 ·
Open source ↗Mayexpositionp1;Junelawarts1,6
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1935
RoyalOrder 8 March 1865 requires escudo amounts in overseas public accounts and documents from 1 July 1865, regardless of delayed coin changes.
Ángel Osvaldo Navarro Zayas · Breve informe del establecimiento del escudo como unidad monetaria en Puerto Rico(1865), Documenta&Instrumenta23(2025),177–192 Citation S997 ·
Open source ↗pp185–186, RoyalOrdertranscription
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full relevant documentary transcription inspected.
Supported C1943
The existing Castilian maravedí/realdevellón accounting profile, then expressed principally in reales, is replaced in public accounts by the escudo of 10 reales in 1864.
Spanish Ministry of Finance, Pedro Salaverría · Exposition and monetary bill submitted to Cortes,10May 1864 Citation S995 ·
Open source ↗May18p1exposition;June28arts1,6;Cano2016pp304,307 identifiesrealdevellón/maravedíscale
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Spanish legislature · Law of26 June 1864 Citation S931 ·
Open source ↗May18p1exposition;June28arts1,6;Cano2016pp304,307 identifiesrealdevellón/maravedíscale
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Pedro Damián Cano Borrego · La moneda circulante en los reinos de la Corona de Aragón en el sigloXVIII tras la Guerra deSucesión, Emblemata22(2016),303–333 Citation S998 ·
Open source ↗May18p1exposition;June28arts1,6;Cano2016pp304,307 identifiesrealdevellón/maravedíscale
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.