Note 7 — Appendix: Buying and Selling Prices of Oriental Products
Reading edition
The cruzado was an old coin of Castilla and Portugal. The [295n] Castilian coin was of gold, silver, or copper, and of different values. The Portuguese coin, evidently the one of our text, was worth ten reals de vellon in Spain. See Dicc. nacional ... de la lengua Española (Madrid, 1878).