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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3121413, member: 10461&quot;]Alec-</p><p><br /></p><p>Welcome to CoinTalk!&nbsp; Hope you&#039;ll stick around and develop a fascination with <i>other</i> little round pieces of metal besides just musketballs.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Castilla&quot; refers to Castile, or the region known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_and_Le%C3%B3n" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_and_Le%C3%B3n" rel="nofollow">Castile and León</a> in Spain.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you have deduced, a &quot;real&quot; is a type of coin.&nbsp; While I don&#039;t know the type and mint of your 1755 half-real, most of those that I am aware of weighed in the neighborhood of 1.7 grams (I looked up a Spanish homeland type and the Mexican colonial type, for example, and saw both listed at 1.69 grams.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t find any Castilian 1-real coins from around 1535, but <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces135149.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces135149.html" rel="nofollow">here&#039;s one from the late 1400s</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>It lists at 3.4 grams, as do all the similar types I saw, and that&#039;s twice the weight of the 1.7 grams of a half-real, so there you go.&nbsp; I had initially thought your mid-1700s half-real would have been struck to a different standard than the late-medieval coins of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, but maybe that&#039;s not the case.&nbsp; It seems the weight stayed pretty consistent up into the mid-18th century, at least in the examples I was able to look up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the coins of Castile &amp; Leon would not have differed much in weight from their counterparts from other areas of Spain, but I don&#039;t know for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps someone with more specialized knowledge of 16th century Spanish coins will be able to say more.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it sounds to me like you&#039;d need to charge your musket with enough powder to match the weight of the lead musketball plus 1.7 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regards,</p><p><br /></p><p>~Robertson (&quot;Rob&quot;) Shinnick (aka &quot;LordM&quot;)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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