What does " pieces of eight " mean?

Answer 1

The Spanish dollar (also known as "pieces of eight" or the eight real coin) is the silver coin, worth eight reales, that was minted in the Spanish Empire after a Spanish currency reform in 1497.

Answer 2

9 Pieces Of 8

Answer 3

If you're referring to the Pirates movie.. they needed 9 pieces of eight.. meaning they needed 9 coins, and the coins were pieces of eight. For example: say you needed 9 dimes for something.. so you would need 9 pieces of ten.... make sense? That's what I got from it anyway.

Answer 4

A Spanish Gold Doubloon had a value of eight reales and for ease of exchange was fashioned in such a way as to be easily split into the eight bits it could represent as currency, hence "pieces of eight"...
So, oddly enough "nine pieces of eight" makes sense, as 1.125 Doubloons...

Answer 5

Pieces of Eight refers to the Spanish dolalr coin, but has come to be synonymous with pirate treasure in pop culture.

Answer 6

"This Spanish colonial coin, valued at eight reals, could be sliced like a pizza into eight "bits" to be used as small change in the colonial United States, The "bits" were the famed "pieces of eight" widely used by pirates."

Answer 7

It's a Spanish silver coin (colonial) worth eight reales ;)

Answer 8

I don't know, but it was in Pirates of teh Caribbean 3, and I was so confused. It said "nine pieces of eight"

Answer 9

Spanish Gold.

Answer 10

If you saw the movie you would see that there was 9 pirate lords(or something like that). They called it "nine pieces of eight" instead of calling it "nine pieces of whatever we had in our pockets at the time" because that wouldnt sound very pirate like.