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The doubloon (from Spanish doblón, or "double", i.e. double escudo) was a two-escudo gold coin worth approximately four Spanish dollars or 32 reales, [1] and weighing 6.766 grams (0.218 troy ounce) of 22-karat gold (or 0.917 fine; hence 6.2 g fine gold).
Gold coins were issued in denominations of 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2, 4 and 8 escudos, with the 2 escudos coin known as the doubloon.Between 1809 and 1849, coins denominated as 80, 160 and 320 reales (de vellon) were issued, equivalent, in gold content and value, to the 2, 4 and 8 escudo coins.
The value of the escudo was raised on November 23, 1566 from 350 to 400 mrs, and multiples were introduced. The double escudo (doblón) was called a pistole in the rest of Europe and in England. The 8-escudo piece (onza de oro) was initially known as a double doubloon, then as a quadruple pistole, but eventually gained fame as the Spanish ...
Moby Dick Coin. Known in the numismatic world as a "Moby Dick Coin", the Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon, minted in Quito, Ecuador, between 1838 and 1843, is the one ounce of gold "sixteen dollar piece" Captain Ahab nails to the mast of the Pequod, promising it to the first man who "raises" Moby-Dick.
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Bradley Dawson is escorted through Lautoka High Court in Suva, Fiji, on Jan. 27, 2025. Dawson was convicted in the murder of his wife, Christie Chen, on their honeymoon in 2023.
This record was broken by a Brasher Doubloon sold in January 2021 by Heritage Auctions for $9.36 million, a world record for a gold coin sold in a public auction. [ 8 ] The coin was the subject of Raymond Chandler 's Philip Marlowe 1942 mystery novel The High Window , [ 9 ] which was made into a film, Time to Kill , in 1942, [ 10 ] and The ...