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Answers to Frequent and Infrequent Questions about life, travel and culture in Panama

What is a Real?

March 10, 2004

You will often hear Panamanians using the term “Real” in such phrases like:

¿Tiene un real?

A “real” (pronounced “reh-al”) is a 5 cent coin. The term goes back to an old Spanish coin called the real.

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