The Spanish dollar, or piece of eight, was another foreign coin that circulated in the new nation. The coin shown at the far left and center was minted in Mexico in 1790. These dollars could be chopped into eight pieces, called <I>bits,</I> or into quarters, <I>near left,</I> called <I>two bits.</I>
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