The project to convert the 40,000 Spanish coins took over a year to complete.
A prize of 10,000 Spanish coins had been promised to the first man to see land and he even claimed this.
Even with only half those Spanish coins he could buy all he wanted and more.
Depending on the sum involved, Brown would have had from 250 to 500 of the Spanish coins in his pouches.
A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real.
The peso was a name often used for the silver Spanish eight-real coin.
The Shadow had acted wisely in taking that Spanish coin.
The ad in the newspaper indicated that the man who had lost the Spanish coin was wary.
The Spanish coins, known as 'pieces of eight', were used by traders (and pirates) all over the world.
Spanish coin, more than a century old and bright as summer.