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doubloon

[ UK /dʌblˈuːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a former Spanish gold coin

How To Use doubloon In A Sentence

  • So I took my mother's spoons and headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons.
  • The Brasher coin was called a doubloon because it is approximately the weight of a Spanish gold doubloon, a common coin in colonial America. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Starbuck is the religious man and he sees in the doubloon a symbol of the Trinity.
  • [24] A doubloon is a coin used in Spanish America in Carter's time worth 16 pieces of eight. Robert Carter Diary, 1725
  • My senses were all confused as within my sight was a king's ransom - Spanish gold doubloons and shining silver reals, gold pieces of eight, old English milled gold guineas, crowns, minted silver shillings.
  • Look here at this gold doubloon, this ounce of Spanish gold!
  • [41.5] A doubloon was a coin used in Spanish America in Carter's time worth 16 pieces of eight. Robert Carter Diary, 1722
  • Ducats and doubloons, princesses and plum-cake, swords awave and cannon blazing, great galleons with crimson sails -- no wonder that they were smiling in their sleep when The Black Buccaneer
  • A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles. George Washington
  • `We haven't found a doubloon for at least half an hour," Pete agreed. THREE IN ONE
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