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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1839790, member: 112&quot;]Change <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Seriously, for the most part they just called them cut pieces. And the smaller denomination coins were rarely cut up because of most folk&#039;s reluctance to take them. That was because were rarely ever sure of what exactly they were getting unless they weighed them, and not many did that, or could. </p><p><br /></p><p>People were not familiar enough with the coins to tell what the cut pieces came from - meaning from a 2 or 4 reales coin, just by looking at remnants of the design and legends since those things changed depending on the date the coin was minted and what country minted it. But the cut pieces of the 8 reales were always the same sizes, a 1/8, 1/4, or 1/2 a coin, which are much larger than cut pieces of 2s or 4s. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the most part cutting the 2s and 4s just wasn&#039;t done. And plenty of those that you can find today, they were cut up today to make them easier to sell to those who are not familiar with the history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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