Re: OT: coins and currency

Carsten Becker wrote:
>
> I wonder where the names for the Bolivian _Bolivar_
> and the Brazilian _Real_ come from. As for Bolivar,
> is the name just derived from the country's name?

The country and the currency are named after Simon
Bolivar, the general who led Peruvian and Bolivian
forces to victory over the Spanish in the early nineteenth
century.

--Ph. D.

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