Definition of "vellon" []

• A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under 1st real. (noun)

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• "Contemporaneously the coinage in Spain was 34 cuartos to one peseta and 5 pesetas to one _duro_ -- the coin nominally equivalent to the peso -- but the duro being subdivided into 20 _reales vellon_, the colonial real fuerte came to be equivalent to 2 1/2 reales vellon."
• "Both of these coins are subdivided into halves and quarter-pieces, and the dollar is divided into eight reals, one of which is equal to two and a half reals of the vellon money current in the"
• "The Portuguese coin, evidently the one of our text, was worth ten reals de vellon in Spain."