Labels:text | screenshot | coin OCR: Coin History [1789] Under both the French and British regimes there tended to be a shortage of coins in New France and British North America. This shortage was made up by the use of Spanish-American silver "dollars". 21746 Spanish-American 8 Reales (Dollar) piece. The Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, 58th Edition, (Toronto: The Charlton Press, 2004), p. 18.
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