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doubloon

, dobl?n
a former Spanish gold coin
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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.
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These fractions may seem strange to today's traders, but the NYSE originally based its quote system on the Spanish gold doubloon system used in trading for centuries.
This Day In Market History: NYSE Launches Decimal Quotes
Melville lampooned the presumptuousness of critics in Chapter 99 of Moby-Dick, "The Doubloon," through the simpler-minded second mate, Stubb, who scolds, "Book!
Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
Money--even in the form of pennies or Ahab's Spanish doubloon nailed to the mast as a prize for the sailor who first spied Moby Dick--is always power, and power is often bloody.
The Common Currency of Life
Toni's saffron, bell pepper and sherry for 'The Doubloon' with a great round flavour harmonised perfectly with the whiffs of the melted Beurre Noisette, Iberico ham and baked ray wing.
Food Feature: Haute Cuisine
Become a real pirate and hunt for treasure in Locomotion's giant sandpit - if you find a gold doubloon you will get an official pirate certificate.
Go loco at the railway museum
(In order to elaborate, I'm going to have to ask everyone reading this to swear on the nearest gold doubloon that what I'm about to tell you goes no further.
All aboard for pirate fun with a very cool granny; Two very different areas of Val McDermid's talents are currently doing the rounds. While SAM WONFOR encounters her swashbuckling Granny, JO BLAKEMORE reviews the author's latest crime thriller, Cross and Burn
The letter, written by Sam's ancestor, Joseph Silver, Captain of the 'Sea Wolf', gives clues to finding a hoard of treasure and the doubloon, when rubbed, whisks Sam back in time to 1706, where he finds himself on board the pirate ship 'Sea Wolf' and heading for adventure.
Burchett, Jan and Vogler, Sara: Skeleton Island (Sam Silver Undercover Pirate)
But their investigations showed that there was also one special gold coin, a Spanish doubloon, stamped AUSTRALIA, ONE GUINEA, 1813.
Arrighi, Paul: Mitch Mango and the Governor's Guinea
Chandler wanted "The Brasher Doubloon" as the title, but his publisher, Alfred Knopf, thought that it made the novel sound "like a boy's story" (Selected Letters 80, 317).
The lawn jockey and "the justice we dream of": history and race in Raymond Chandler's The High Window
Both the sailors and tribesmen are paid with gold: in Melville, by the symbolic doubloon that Ahab nails to the mast; in Lawrence, by the heavy bags of coins used to bribe the insatiable Arabs.
Moby-Dick and Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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