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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1231179, member: 66&quot;]Coinhead</p><p><br /></p><p>Your information on the stamps is interesting but your explanation of the spanish coins is all messed up.&nbsp; The Spanish milled dollar (our term for it) was a coin denominated as 8 Reales.&nbsp; During times of coin shortage these would be cut up to make change.&nbsp; They would cut cut in half (half dollar or 4 reales), quarters (quarter dollar or 2 reales) or eighths (1 /8 of a dollar, 1 reale or in the slag of the time 1 bit.)&nbsp; The Spanish also made whole coins with the denominations of half reale (equal to about 6 1/4 cents), a one reale or bit equal to 12 1/2 cents, a two reales, two bits or quarter dollar, and a four reales 4 bits or half dollar.&nbsp; (They also made a 1/5 dollar piece called a pistereen which was worth 20 cents but it didn&#039;t fit in with anything else and was quite unpopular.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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