Conto

  1. The count of one million, usually applied to a given monetary denomination.
  2. In monetary terms, it came to mean the equivalent of one million maravedís. By the 1350s the maravedí as a currency was no longer in use, but it survived as a monetary accounting unit, i.e. a value of reference for other coins. 
  3. The concept of a conto (of maravedís) as a value is clear in the Chronicle of King João I, Part 2, where the King of Castile's tax revenue is expressed as "eighteen contos in good coinage". [João2, ch. 146]

 

 

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