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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 38 mm (1.5 in) diameter worth eight Spanish reales. It was minted in the Spanish Empire following a monetary reform in 1497 with content 25.563 g (0.8219 ozt) fine silver.
Pieces of Eight is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and music by Jule Styne. It is based on the classic 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson .
To be more precise, she was loaded with silver Spanish coins, mostly 8 reales, “Pieces of Eight,” It carried 400,000 silver pesos and another 50,000 pesos worth of smaller change, of various dates. At one ounce to the peso, and 12 troy ounces to the pound, that's 37,500 pounds of silver. [1]
Pieces of Eight, an album by Styx 1978; Pieces of Eight (Don Ellis Octet album), live album recorded 1967, released 2006; Pieces of Eight, London, with sketches by Peter Cook; Pieces of Eight (1985 musical), Edmonton, music by Jule Styne; Pieces of Eight (plays), 8 one-act plays presented in 1982-1983, by Tom Stoppard and 7 other dramatists ...
The registered wealth included 166,574 silver “pieces of eight” treasure coins, more than 550 ingots of silver weighing approximately 10,000 pounds, and over 9,000 ounces of gold in the form of bars, discs, and bits.
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PHOTO: Disney Cruise Line's new ship, the Disney Treasure, docked in its home port of Port Canaveral. Following its initial visit to Florida, the Disney Treasure will sail to New York for a ...
The men voted Sawkins their new admiral. The pirates left Panama for a nearby fishing village to await a ransom for the captured soldiers and to try to capture Spanish ships unaware of their presence. They captured a galleon carrying 60,000 pieces of eight intended for the pay of Panama's soldiers. The governor of Panama refused their ransom ...