0 (in the past) coins used in Spain
I hope that he is not contemplating paying his community charge in pieces of eight.
Treasure may refer to a large number of gold doubloons or pieces of eight but the word "treasure" is indisputably singular.
They are, indeed, almost museum pieces of eight or ten years old.
One peso was worth eight "reales" (the source of the term pieces of eight) or two "tostones".
Through this, each man earned, at the very least, one-hundred pieces of eight.
Nevertheless, silver pieces of eight continued to form an important portion of the circulating coinage right up until the late 1870s.
Captain would also say silly old bat, and pieces of eight.
A salary and compensation is specified for the surgeon and his medicine chest, usually 250 pieces of eight.
