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They typically convert their currency -- pesos, cruzados or australes -- into U.S. dollars, because they are a better store of value.

From Time Magazine Archive

Companies were allowed to trade impounded cruzados for negotiable cruzeiros by using them to pay taxes and debts.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had reserved 1000 cruzados for my own expenses, which I considered as quite sufficient, but they were gradually wasting away, for I was everywhere received, and in the best company of Rio.

From The Privateersman by Marryat, Frederick

And those within also were not without great loss, since ten of the cruzados were killed, which gave great grief to their companions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various

He gave him also a hundred cruzados and a hundred testoons, besides the payment due to him, and goods and other presents, so that the honest broker departed highly pleased.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles