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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinCorgi, post: 26680920, member: 88934&quot;]<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-moby-dick-coin.376400/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-moby-dick-coin.376400/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-moby-dick-coin.376400/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Melville:</p><blockquote><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000">&quot;...Look ye! d’ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?”—holding up a broad bright coin to the sun—“it is a sixteen dollar piece, men...&quot;</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000">...</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000"><i>It so chanced that the doubloon of the Pequod was a most wealthy example of these things. On its round border it bore the letters, REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR: QUITO. So this bright coin came from a country planted in the middle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and named after it;</i></span></i></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia:</p><blockquote><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000">Known in the numismatic world as a &quot;Moby Dick Coin&quot;, the Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon, minted in Quito, Ecuador, between 1838 and 1843, is the one ounce of gold &quot;sixteen dollar piece&quot; Captain Ahab nails to the mast of the Pequod, promising it to the first man who &quot;raises&quot; Moby-Dick.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></i></p></blockquote><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/1840_escudos-jpg.1264239/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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