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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 110840, member: 112&quot;]In a way yes, we got the idea for our silver dollar from the Spanish colonial 8 reales. The reale coinage was the most widely circulated and readily accepted coinage there was in the early US. It circulated until 1857.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Annie - are you confusing the Mexican peso with the 8 reales ? The first Mexiacan peso did not exist until 1870.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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