Currency of Uruguay issued by Banco Nacional of Buenos Aires for Provincia Oriental ("Eastern Province", i.e., Uruguay). All parties to the conflict used the Spanish dollar (Spanish "peso", Portuguese " patacão"), which circulated with a value of 8 Spanish reales or 960 Brazilian reis. Circulation consisted of coins from mints in Mexico, Potosí, Brazil, and Buenos Aires. During the turbulent period of conflict preceding independence, a considerable amount of poor-quality copper coin from both Buenos Aires and Brazil came into circulation. Peso (Patacón) = 8 Reales = 800 Centésimos de real (centavos) Onza de oro = 16 Pesos In 1828, Uruguay's currency was
Name of Brazil Name of Brazil The name "Brazil" is a shortened form of "Terra do Brasil", "land of Brazil", a reference to brazilwood, given in the early 16th century to the territories leased to the merchant consortium led by Fernão de Loronha for commercial exploitation of brazilwood for the production of wood dyes for the European textile industry. The term for the brazilwood tree in Portuguese, "pau-brasil", is derived from "brasa" ("ember"), a reference to the colour, formed from medieval Latin "brasa", from Old French "brese", "ember, glowing charcoal", in turn from a West Germanic "*brasa"). The land of what became Brazil