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Not very fun fact: Don Quixote cost 293 and a half maravedis, or one piece of eight and some change in 1605, an ocho and 20 maravedis with seller markup. That's 5.3 chickens or 4 and half dozen eggs. Roughly the silver content found in early US currency after they started competing with Mexico.

Someone else can do a better conversion.