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    The Spanish dollar, also known as the piece of eight (Spanish: real de a ocho, dólar, peso duro, peso fuerte or peso), is a silver coin of approximately...
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    rate of 1 dollar = 4 shillings 2 pence. Spain: the Spanish dollar was used from 1497 to 1868. It is closely related to the dollars (Spanish dollar was used...
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    the U.S. dollar at par with the Spanish silver dollar, divided it into 100 cents, and authorized the minting of coins denominated in dollars and cents...
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    , British America and Britain, referring to the Spanish American peso, also known as "Spanish dollar" or "piece of eight" in British America. Those coins...
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    The dollar coin is a United States coin with a face value of one United States dollar. Dollar coins have been minted in the United States in gold, silver...
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  • of Spain. The current currency since 2002 is the Euro. Dobla Columnarios Doubloon Picayune Spanish dollar Spanish euro coins Currency of Spanish America...
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  • from the Spanish American silver dollar, which China imported in large quantities from Spanish America through Spanish Philippines in the Manila-Acapulco...
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    silver eight-real Spanish dollar (Real de a 8) or peso which was used throughout Europe, America and Asia during the height of the Spanish Empire. The first...
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  • dollar, it has existed since 1965, and it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $ or, alternatively, EC$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated...
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    The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; French: dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $. There is no standard...
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    large, silver coin, such as the old Spanish dollar, which had a diameter of 38–40 mm. Other names for the sand dollar include sand cakes, pansy shells,...
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  • Silver dollar is a dollar coin made of silver or any white metal. See: Spanish dollar Dollar coin (United States) Dollar (Hong Kong coin) Canadian silver...
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    Peso (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    successful revolt of the Spanish colonies in America had cut off the supply of silver coin by 1820. By 1825 "...the Spanish dollar, the universal coin of...
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  • dollar began with moves by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America to establish a national currency based on the Spanish silver dollar,...
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  • sterling system. The Spanish dollar was already prevalent throughout the West Indies in general, and from 1839, the Spanish dollar unit operated in British...
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    money in Jamaica was Spanish copper coins called maravedíes. This relates to the fact that for nearly four hundred years Spanish dollars, known as pieces...
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    centuries, the use of silver Spanish dollars or eight-real coins, also known as "pieces of eight" extended from the Spanish territories in the Americas...
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  • U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar. By 1895, the circumstances had changed to the extent that there was now a dearth of Spanish/Mexican dollars and the...
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    From 1497, the Spanish government started to mint a large silver coin that, through wide circulation, became known as the Spanish dollar. It was also known...
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  • sterling and the Spanish dollar at $1 = 4s 4d. This exchange rate was supposed to be based on the value of the silver in the Spanish dollars as compared to...
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    was minted in 1794 and 1795; its size and weight were based on the Spanish dollar, which was popular in trade throughout the Americas. In 1791, following...
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    coins circulated throughout Spain's colonies and beyond, with the eight-real piece, known in English as the Spanish dollar, becoming an international standard...
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  • be from 10 and 5 céntimo coins of the Spanish peseta, known as the perra gorda and perra chica. The Spanish dollar or silver peso worth eight reales was...
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    Colonial Era were, most often, of Spanish and Portuguese origin. For most of the 17th and 18th century, the Spanish dollar was one of the few widely accepted...
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  • sterling coinage legal tender in the colonies at the specified rate of 1 Spanish dollar to 4 shillings, 4 pence sterling. As the sterling silver coins were...
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  • Eastern Caribbean territories in general. The first currency used was the Spanish dollar, also known as "pieces of eight", which began circulating in the 16th...
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    modern central banking (as opposed to the Spanish dollar stabilized through American mine output and Spanish fiat) and which can be considered as the precursor...
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    Thaler (redirect from Lion dollar)
    silver coins minted in Habsburg Spain was the eight real coin, later also known as peso and in English as the "Spanish dollar". The first large silver coin...
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    due to abundant silver supplies in Spanish America. The US dollar itself was derived from this coin. The Spanish dollar was later displaced by sterling in...
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    currency used in the East Indies was the Spanish dollar, including issues both from Spain and from the new world Spanish colonies, which for the East Indies...
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