Assertion: coin | /r/CapableOf | achieve predominance
Facets:
value: by 1704
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the new world
type: LOCATION
value: because of spain’s
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: (“pieces of eight”), or Spanish dollars, the coins achieved predominance in the New World because of Spain’s then-important commercial and political position.8Indeed, by 1704, the “pieces of eight” had in fact become a unit of account of the Colonies, as Queen Anne’s Proclamation of 1704 recognized, when it decreed that all other current foreign silver coins “stand regulated, according to their weight and fineness, according and in proportion to the rate . . .