| Escudos |
A Spanish gold coin popularly known as a Doubloon, widely circulated in Latin America and Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The 8 Escudos weighed 27.07 grams at 960 fineness.
An eight escudos coin minted
in
Spain in 1805 in the reign of
King Charles V (Credit:
Spink & Son Ltd.)