Were Bute youth forum our story today is about some Some pirates that attacked a random cargo ship for no particular reason, (apart from all the real reasons)
The money that pirates used were either called doubloons or pieces of eight they were made out of silver because there wasn't enough gold in the world.
The Real de a Ocho, also known as the Spanish dollar, the Eight Royals Coin, or the Piece of Eight (Spanish Peso de Ocho), is a silver coin, of approximately 38 mm diameter, worth eight Spanish reales, that was minted in the Spanish Empire after 1598.