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...

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...

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...

, British America and Britain, referring to the Spanish American peso, also known as "Spanish dollar" or "piece of eight" in British America. Those coins...

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...

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...

sterling system. The Spanish dollar was already prevalent throughout the West Indies in general, and from 1839, the Spanish dollar unit operated in British...

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,...

Spanish America through Spanish Philippines in the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade from the 16th to 20th centuries. After the use of the Spanish dollar...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bourbon king of Spain, to retain the throne but resulting in territorial losses for Spain: Gibraltar, Menorca, the Spanish Netherlands and Spanish Italy. In...

America Céntimo Other coins Dobla Doubloon Columnarios Picayune Spanish dollar Spanish euro coins "History of peseta coins and notes". Banco de España...

colonial era were, most often, of Spanish and Portuguese origin. For most of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Spanish dollar was one of the few widely accepted...

coins circulated throughout Spain's colonies and beyond, with the eight-real piece, known in English as the Spanish dollar, becoming an international standard...

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...

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...

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...

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...

fineness to the Spanish dollar, which had set the standard for a de facto common currency for trade in the Far East. The existence of trade dollars came about...

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...

system disbanded when Macquarie became governor on 1 January 1810. Spanish dollars were sometimes cut into "pieces of eight", quarters, and then into...

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...