RE: [ranchos] "dos Reales Cedulas"

["Kitty Cortez" <kcortez@...>]

Looking in the  Merriam-Webster's Spanish English Dictionary, I would guess  "Two Royal Documents".   That the extent of my Spanish.

 

 

Kitty

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From: Joseph Puentes [mailto:makas@...r.com]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:25 AM
To: LosRanchos; Ciudad_Juarez@yahoogroups.com; makas@...; makas_nc
Subject: [ranchos] "dos Reales Cedulas"

does anyone know the meaning of  "dos Reales Cedulas" 
?

curious minds need to know,

joseph

ps: Enclosed for your 
amusement are some pictures of a 1793 1/2 Real 
Coin that was used as legal 
tender in Mexico though I believe it was 
minted in Spain. I paid $30 for it 
and the date is a little hard to read 
but it has special meaning to me 
because it was something from the same 
time period that my GGG Twin 
*Grandfathers: Thadeo Diaz were born in 
Colotlan.

*my paternal 
grandparents were 3rd cousins and one came from one twin 
and the other from 
the other twin.