Spanish dollar
eight-real coin
piece of eight

Spanish dollar, also known as a piece of eight.

The Spanish dollars began having different values in different colonies.

Foreign coins, including the Spanish dollar, were also widely used as legal tender until 1857.

Some countries countersigned the Spanish dollar so it could be used as their local currency.

The dollar was equal in value to the Spanish dollar.

The paper cost was half a Spanish dollar.

Both were produced by cutting a central plug from a Spanish dollar (8 real) coin.

The contents were gold, all gold but for one thin Spanish dollar.

"Some of these old Spanish dollars may be silver, but there are collectors who will buy them at the price of gold."

Spain: the Spanish dollar is closely related to the dollars and euros used today.

I signed a receipt for the Spanish dollar equivalent of the pay owing,' he said.

This valuation of the Spanish dollar was known as the York rating.

Millions of Spanish dollars were minted over the course of several centuries.

The Spanish Dollar became the world's first global currency.

Initially, six shillings were equal to one Spanish dollar.

Spanish pesos - having the same weight and shape - came to be known as Spanish dollars.

The York rating was a valuation of the Spanish dollar in the £sd accounting system.

The 1655 legislature officially devalued the Spanish dollar to 5 shillings.

During the starting year of operation, $400,000 (Spanish dollars) worth of trade passed through Singapore.

He exported indigo and cloth to Europe in exchange for Spanish dollars.

The portrait variety from 1772 and later are typically referred to as Spanish dollars or pillar dollars.

The Spanish dollar was widely used by many countries as international currency because of its uniformity in standard and milling characteristics.

The idea was that this order-in-council would make the sterling coins legal tender at the exchange rate of 4s 4d per Spanish dollar.

Before the American Revolution, prices were often quoted in units of the Spanish dollar.

The second was an eighteenth-cent ury Spanish dollar.

Old Nathan took the eight-real coin between two fingers and turned it over.

The peso was a name often used for the silver Spanish eight-real coin.

James Lamb of Christie's says that a good eight-real coin should sell for about $400.

The peso was originally the name of the eight-real coins issued in Mexico by Spain.

The old eight-real coin now became known in Spain as a peso duro, or simply a duro, and was rated 10 reales.

The term 'dollar' had already been in common usage since the colonial period when it referred to eight-real coin (Spanish dollar) used by the Spanish throughout New Spain.

Because of the importance of the piece of eight in international trade, this new silver coin was intended only for circulation in Spain itself, and the older and heavier eight-real coin continued to be minted.

Since there were no federal coins issued, the needs of the states were fulfilled by a variety of domestic and foreign coins and tokens, including Spanish eight-real coins (popularly known as Spanish dollars or pieces of eight).

The Spanish dollar (also known as the piece of eight (peso de ocho), the real de a ocho or the eight-real coin) is a silver coin, of approximately 38 mm diameter, worth eight reales, that was minted in the Spanish Empire after a Spanish currency reform in 1497.

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