Pieces of Eight – The Currency That Built the Pirate World

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  @BilgeRatsYT · 4 months ago · pinned

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• CO

  @ConcealedCourier · 5 months ago

  Gotta love how AI decided it was appropriate for the blacksmith to be forging a dice cube when it was talking about mint dies.

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• MU

  @MugiwarasNakama · 5 months ago

  Pirate Lore has got to be some of the greatest Lore in human history.

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• TD

  @TDThib42 · 5 months ago

  &quot;And call it 9 pieces of whatever is in your pocket? That&apos;s not very piratie.&quot; Is the first thing I thought of soon as the video started 😂😂😂

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• BI

  @billmurray4895 · 5 months ago

  When the stock exchange came about, the “shares of stock” were listed in fractions of a dollar…1/4, 1/8, and so forth…a nod to the Spanish dollar….prices of eight. &nbsp; Arrrg me hardies!

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• NI

  @nicmarcelino9944 · 3 months ago

  That was back in the day when gold and silver were directly in the hands of traders around the world. It just sucks that all we have now are inexpensive metal coins with only figures minted on them, which will no longer be of any value once you get out of the country.

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• BU

  @BuriedHistory-8 · 4 months ago

  This was such a fascinating watch! I never realized that the &apos;pieces of eight&apos; from pirate movies were actually the world&apos;s first global currency. It’s crazy to see how it shaped the modern US dollar and even where the &apos;$&apos; sign likely came from. A really eye-opening look at how this silver built our world, even with such a dark and bloody history behind it.

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  @bman3794 · 4 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SpUFrEXX4&amp;t=348">5:48</a> not many people know this but if you remove the crown and combine the two pillars and the cloth, that’s how we got the $ sign!

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• OB

  @OBXDewey · 2 weeks ago

  This was REALLY good! &nbsp;👍

• HE

  @hermosoloremalaga · 5 months ago

  Pieces of eigth. &nbsp;The first global currency. It was a masterpiece of metalurgy at that time in s. XVI. &nbsp;It was still use around the globe until s. XIX.

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• EM

  @Emperor_Zewulf_the_First · 4 months ago

  When money was actually money. :D

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• TI

  @timdelvillar8063 · 5 months ago

  Gotta love those &quot;conqweestadors&quot;!

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