Some countries countersigned the Spanish dollar so it could be used as their local currency.
From 1815 until 1828, 15 reaal were equal to a Spanish dollar.
Foreign coins, including the Spanish dollar, were also widely used as legal tender until 1857.
But the Spanish milled dollar was too valuable for small charges.
The dollar was equal in value to the Spanish dollar.
"Some of these old Spanish dollars may be silver, but there are collectors who will buy them at the price of gold."
The brig was reported to be carrying 40,000 Spanish dollars.
The Spanish dollars began having different values in different colonies.
The Spanish dollars fell away in the 1850s but returned again in the 1870s following the international silver crisis of 1873.
Spanish dollar, also known as a piece of eight.