Doubloon
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The doubloon was a two-escudo gold coin worth approximately four Spanish dollars or 32 reales, and weighing 6.766 grams of 22-karat gold. Doubloons were minted in Spain and the viceroyalties of New Sp
Italian States, Piacenza, 2 Doppie (1626), depicting Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma
Brasher Doubloon
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The Brasher Doubloon is a rare American doubloon of eight escudos worth sixteen dollars, privately minted in and after 1787.
Doubloon
…doubloon or simply doubloon, the $8 the doubloon of four (escudos), and the $16 the doubloon of eight. Spanish America did the same (see es:doblón, Brasher doubloon). After the War of 1812, doubloons of eight were valued in Nova Scotia at the rate of £4 and became the dominant coin there…
