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CASTILLAN

Volume 2 · 50 words · 1771 Edition

Castillane, a gold-coin, current in Spain, and worth fourteen rials and sixteen deniers. Castillan is also a weight used in Spain for weighing gold. It is the hundredth part of a pound Spanish weight.

What they commonly call a weight of gold in Spain, is always understood of the castillan.