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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 2 — THE REVENGE.

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The moidore and the johannes were Portuguese coins, the pistole Spanish. The moidore was worth six pieces of eight, the pistole four, the johannes eight. Here they are reckoned at 7½, 4½, and 20, respectively; but perhaps the last were "double joes".

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