Show pieces piece of eight this coln coin Is 11 Sp spanish piece that circulated freely la in this country in colonial and revolutionary times aind the coln coin to which we owe the adoption of the dollar as the unit of our currency it had become tile the custom in many places especially in the south to price goods keep accounts and make collections in spanish milled dollars tile the name under which the old pieces ot of eight eight reals were known in tho the colonies when we caroe came to have a currency of our own we took the piece of or spanish dollar as our unit and divided it into a hi hundred indred cents |