doubloon
nounUK /dʌˈbluːn/
Etymology From French doublon, from Spanish doblón, augmentative of doble (“double”), because it was worth twice a pistole.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Numismatics Historical A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies.
- English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to ware them round your neck – nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Numismatics Canada, Abbreviation, Clipping, Slang Clipping of doubloonie.
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Alternative Alternative form of dabloon (“fictional currency”).
- Derived terms
- doubloonie, Brasher doubloon