Milreis

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The Milreis [... 'rɛiʃ] ( Portuguese mil-réis , from mil = " thousand " and réis ) was a Portuguese currency unit that was introduced in 1854. It was also used in Brazil between 1849 and 1926 . One milreis corresponds to 1000 rice. The sign for Milreis is very similar to the dollar sign .

By 1913 a Brazilian milreis was worth about 1.36 marks.

credentials

  1. ↑ a b Archived copy ( Memento of December 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Duden - The great foreign dictionary
  3. ↑ http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
  4. ^ Adolf Bieler: Brazil. Hamburg 1920, p. 25.