Off Topic... richordietrying
doubloons are gold coins that come in demoninations of escudos.
either 2 4 or 8 escodos and were hand stamped in mexico or south america and called cobs, they were then transported to Spain, remelted and machine pressed into rolled coinage
pieces of 8 are silver coins and manufactured the same way, the denomination was called a reales
hence a 2 real was 1/4 the value of an 8 real, and was called a piece of eight which later became called the 1/4 of 8 or what became to be termed the quarter.
It has been a hobby of mine to go after shipwrecks in North Carolina Bahamas and Florida with a metal detector to discover the coins, after years of casual research I found where the shipwrecks are but only found a few puter pieces and part of a silver dinner plate, but still it was time on the beach. Most of the wrecks are now burried under about 8 feet of sand.
Most of my collection I have bought privately and continue to add to it whenever I can, my stock habit gets in the way.
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