Even thought wikipedia clearly calls the spanish dollar a 'piece of eight', it's pretty clear that peso means 'weight' and the dollar has about 8x the weight in

Even thought wikipedia clearly calls the spanish dollar a 'piece of eight', it's pretty clear that peso means 'weight' and the dollar has about 8x the weight in silver of a spanish real. It's probably better to call it a 'weight of eight'. http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/Sp-milled.2.html http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/Sp-milled.2.html