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Avast, me hearties! How better to celebrate 'Talk like a pirate day' than to grace your ears with pirate treasure*?
- Flash your swashbuckling spirit to the landlubbers!
- Pay off the boss who wants you keel hauled for your wild and carefree ways!
- To boldly leap# aboard your opponent's decks in glorious splendour!
- Cosplay trading for silks and wonders with mysterious merchants in imaginary far flung foreign ports.
Pieces of eight (also called a 'Spanish dollar') were once part of an informal 'international currency' in the 16th to 18th centuries. Those who sailed the seven seas could purchase and trade using these coins as their value was based on their actual precious metal weight*. Typical originals were made from 25.56 grams of silver.
Piece of eight are called such because they could be cut into eight pieces (eight 'reales'). That seems a somewhat laborious way to make change!
See also our 'dubloons' listing.
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The double-sided circle drops are 36mm in diameter.
Please note that the pieces of eight have a thin but faintly visible alumumium edge. Please see the listing images.
We personally handmake our colourful light-weight aluminium jewellery range in our home studio.
Surgical stainless steel hooks for happy ears.
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*These are decorative jewellery only. No warranty is given that any time-travelling pirates of yore will accept their exchange for chests of treasure or oceans of adventure.
#intentional split infinitive. Star Trek fans will understand. Yes, we're mixing our popular culture references. Goodness!
