In "Hills Like White Elephants" the American orders two big beers. The price is "four reales." How much would that have been in American money at the...

Now, this is
an interesting question. The Real (plural:
Reales) is a unit of Spanish currency used from the mid-14th
century to 1864, when it was replaced by the escudo, and then by
the peseta in 1860 ( href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_real">Wikipedia). The word,
however, still had meaning: a real was one-fourth of a peseta,
similar in function to the U.S. Quarter-Dollar coin. Since "" was published in 1927,
this latter definition would have been the meaning in the story.

The
girl looked at the bead curtain.

"They've painted
something on it," she said. "What does it say?"

"Anis del Toro. It's a drink."

"Could we try it?"

The man
called "Listen" through the curtain. The woman came out from the
bar.

"Four
reales."

"We want two Anis del...