piece of eight

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   an old silver Spanish coin; worth 8 reales

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Questions about piece of eight

What does piece of eight mean?

piece of eight means "an old silver Spanish coin; worth 8 reales".

Is piece of eight a common word?

piece of eight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.