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re: #507 engineer dog
one bit was 1/8th of a reale - the spanish reale was one of the most trusted currencies in the world at the time. you cut ‘em up into little gold pie wedges to make change…
another was the joachimsthaler, or thaler, from which we get our word ‘dollar’
Pieces of eight were never gold ” The silver 8 reales coins was known as the Spanish dollar or peso (the famous “piece of eight”).”
