Doubloon

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  • noun. A gold coin formerly used in Spain and Spanish America.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A gold coin of Spain and the Spanish-American states, originally of double the value of the pistole, the double pistole being equivalent from 1730 to 1772 to $8.24, from 1772 to 1786 to $8.08, and from 1786 to 1848 to $7.87.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See doblon in Sup.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies.
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  • noun. a former Spanish gold coin
  • Word Usage
    "The Brasher coin was called a doubloon because it is approximately the weight of a Spanish gold doubloon, a common coin in colonial America."
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    coin  
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    coin  crown  double eagle  ducat  eagle  
    variant
    doblon