pieces-of-eight

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  • 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.

  • They have been known to spend 2 or 3,000 pieces of eight in one night; and one gave a strumpet 500 to see her naked.

  • A sum for provisions and victuals is specified, usually 200 pieces of eight.

  • The offer was 4,000 pieces of eight, which he assured were still in his possession.

  • The dollar was divided into pieces of eight, or bits, each consisting of one-eighth of a dollar.

  • The silver was in the form of minted coins, mostly pieces of eight.

  • Lists show standardised payments of 600 pieces of eight ($156,000 in modern currency) for the loss of a leg down to 100 pieces ($26,800) for loss of an eye.

  • Nevertheless, silver pieces of eight continued to form an important portion of the circulating coinage right up until the wake of the great silver devaluation of 1873.

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