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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 26625648, member: 19165&quot;]I do find it interesting that they called this piece a &quot;fragment&quot; when it isn&#039;t broken at all... it is intentionally cut. They had 8 reales coins, and to make smaller coinage they would cut them into pieces. The size you have would have been &quot;one bit&quot; (one real). Two bits would have been a quarter of a dollar, so you&#039;ve got a 12.5 cent piece. </p><p><br /></p><p>The weight of the US dollar was based on the &quot;real de a ocho&quot;... you&#039;ve heard the term &quot;pieces of 8&quot;... literally means an 8 reales coin, which weighed 27 grams. This was approximately the weight of a US silver dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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