The Piece of Eight, a silver coin from the Spanish Empire, emerged as the world's first truly international currency, dominating global trade across continents. Minted from American silver, its purity ...
The silver Spanish coin that Harold Holden found while diving off the Florida coast had been missing for nearly 300 years. Now it's missing again, and his family would like it returned. Holden, a ...
The coins, known as pieces of eight, were minted in Spanish colonies of Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia. More than 1,000 silver coins and five gold coins, valued at around $1 million (Rs 8.87 Crore), have ...
(This is an excerpt from Neil MacGregor's new book, "A History of the World in 100 Objects," just published by Penguin.) Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- We've all grown so accustomed to using little round ...
SEBASTIAN, FL — More than 1,000 silver coins and five gold coins worth about $1 million were recovered from a 1715 Spanish shipwreck off the coast of Florida, a shipwreck salvage company said. On Sept ...
A Hurricane Sank a Spanish Fleet in 1715. This Summer, Salvagers Found $1M in Coins A team of excavators has uncovered a load of long-lost Spanish coins buried for centuries under the surf and sand ...
Saturday’s auction of a rare group of about 600 gold coins, 100 pieces of jewelry and other currency went well, Valley Auctions owner Robert Smith said. Smith said some of the selling prices were ...
Long before the US Dollar became the dominant currency of the modern world, there was another coin that ruled global trade, going across oceans and continents with quite an important influence. This ...
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