piece of eight
Old pirate currency
A piece of eight was a Spanish silver coin worth eight reales, widely used as currency throughout the Americas and Europe from the 16th through 19th centuries.
The coin could be physically cut into eight wedge-shaped pieces for smaller transactions—the origin of the term "two bits" for a quarter.
The phrase now evokes pirate treasure and colonial-era commerce: The chest was filled with pieces of eight.
Colonial Caribbean coast and sea
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
- New WorldWestern Hemisphere landmasses
- conquistadorSpanish colonial soldier-explorer
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
trade routes · Cartagena · mercantilism · Age of Discovery · Habsburg · Philip II · Seville · colonial trade
Historic Spanish gold currency
- realTruly existing, not fake
- pesoLatin American currency
- escudoFormer Portuguese coin
- ducatFormer European gold coin
guilder · thaler · crown · shilling · sovereign · denomination · mint · bullion
Historic Spanish gold currency
- treasure chestLocked box for valuables
- BlackbeardFamous Caribbean buccaneer
- buccaneerCaribbean colonial-era pirate
- corsairPirate or pirate ship
privateer · plunder · Jolly Roger · cutlass · Long John Silver · Treasure Island · buried treasure · swashbuckler
Spanish Main
Colonial Caribbean coast and sea
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
- New WorldWestern Hemisphere landmasses
- conquistadorSpanish colonial soldier-explorer
transatlantic · trade routes · Cartagena · mercantilism · Age of Discovery · Habsburg · Philip II · Seville · colonial trade · Acapulco
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Historic Spanish gold currency
ducat · guilder · thaler · crown · shilling · sovereign · denomination · mint · bullion · silver dollar
doubloon
Historic Spanish gold currency
- treasure chestLocked box for valuables
- BlackbeardFamous Caribbean buccaneer
- buccaneerCaribbean colonial-era pirate
corsair · privateer · plunder · Jolly Roger · cutlass · Long John Silver · Treasure Island · buried treasure · swashbuckler · parrot
hoard
Hidden accumulated valuables
buried · chest · X marks the spot · shipwreck · salvage · metal detector · fortune · riches · valuables · discovery
piece of eightcryptocurrency
Encrypted decentralized money
Bitcoin · digital currency · credit card · modern currency · contactless payment
piece of eightBitcoin
Peer-to-peer electronic cash
cryptocurrency · digital currency · electronic money · virtual currency · Ethereum
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