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doubloon

(n): a former Spanish gold coin
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

"I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes."

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 99

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