DOLLAR Coin of 8 Real value. Originally coined for South American trade. Also called Peso and Pillar Dollar. This is the coin of pirate fame and circulated widely in the American colonies. STIVERS Small coin of Netherlands and Germany of about 2c value. �THIRTY PIECES Rev. McFarquhar, of Donegal, in

exchange and to the dearth of money of whatever form in the early days of our colonies, that of Pennsylvania in particular. During the heydey of Spain at which time her influence held sway over at least two-thirds of the Western Hemisphere, the Spanish "Piece of Eight" so named on account of the prominence