doubloon
Spanish treasure coin
A doubloon is a Spanish gold coin that circulated from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, worth about two escudos.
The word appears most often in pirate stories and treasure-hunting contexts: a chest full of doubloons, buried doubloon.
Outside historical or fictional settings, doubloon sometimes means any gold coin or, loosely, money.
Valued wealth or keepsake
- buccaneerCaribbean colonial-era pirate
- corsairPirate or pirate ship
- privateerAuthorized civilian warship
- swashbucklerDaring, flamboyant swordsman
Blackbeard · plunder · booty · loot · cutlass · buried · chest · map
Medium of exchange
- numismaticsStudy of currency
- mintAromatic culinary herb
- denominationNamed religious group
- pesoLatin American currency
escudo · real · ducat · specie · obverse · reverse · edge · struck
Hidden accumulated valuables
- shipwreckDestroyed vessel at sea
- sunkenDescended beneath water level
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
- excavationAct of unearthing
discovery · diving · underwater · cache · hidden · unearthed · recovered · jackpot
Language of Iberia
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
- conquistadorSpanish colonial soldier-explorer
- empireDomain under unified control
- tradeExchange of commodities
mercantilism · Manila · Seville · colony · expedition · maritime · navigation · Armada
Object worth amassing
- numismaticOf coin collecting
- relicPreserved ancient object
- artifactHuman-made historical object
- provenanceRecord of ownership
patina · heirloom · rare · auction · appraisal · museum · preservation · specimen
treasure
Valued wealth or keepsake
- buccaneerCaribbean colonial-era pirate
- corsairPirate or pirate ship
- privateerAuthorized civilian warship
swashbuckler · Blackbeard · plunder · booty · loot · cutlass · buried · chest · map · Caribbean
currency
Medium of exchange
- numismaticsStudy of currency
- mintAromatic culinary herb
- denominationNamed religious group
peso · escudo · real · ducat · specie · obverse · reverse · edge · struck · die
hoard
Hidden accumulated valuables
excavation · discovery · diving · underwater · cache · hidden · unearthed · recovered · jackpot · fortune
Spanish
Language of Iberia
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
- conquistadorSpanish colonial soldier-explorer
- empireDomain under unified control
trade · mercantilism · Manila · Seville · colony · expedition · maritime · navigation · Armada · viceroyalty
collectible
Object worth amassing
- numismaticOf coin collecting
- relicPreserved ancient object
- artifactHuman-made historical object
provenance · patina · heirloom · rare · auction · appraisal · museum · preservation · specimen · genuine
bullion
Precious metal in bulk
fineness · assay · troy · ounce · minted · luster · shiny · yellow · gilded · metallic
- moneydollar, euro, coin, cash, pound
- coinspennies, leu, silver eagles, nickels, ban
- currenciesdollar, pound, euro, yen, peso
- pirate talkahoy, arr, argh, aye, aye aye
- currency historygold standard, silver standard, bimetallism, fiat money, fiat currency
- old coinsducat, guinea, shilling, groat, penny
doublooncounterfeit
Fraudulent imitation
fake · forgery · wooden nickel · fool's gold · slug
doublooncryptocurrency
Encrypted decentralized money
digital currency · credit · electronic payment · modern currency · fiat money
- gold doubloonOld Spanish currency