Assertion: spanish dollar | /r/Synonym | pieces of eight
Facets:
value: alternatively
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: For nearly four hundred years Spanish dollars, known as "pieces of eight" were in widespread use on the world's trading routes, including the Caribbean region.
text: The rationale behind this lies in the fact that Spanish silver dollars, alternatively known as pieces of eight, were already circulating alongside the Dutch coinage, and also widely throughout the Eastern Caribbean.