pillar-dollars

Updated: July 20, 2025

At last my grandfather asked: "What do you see?" The other's lips moved, and an unintelligible whisper reached me. "Ay, that's it, that's it," said the captain, and sent a quick, searching look about the room. "Doubloons pieces-of-eight Spanish pillar-dollars doubloons, doubloons! That is what it would likely be made up of, eh? But where try to see that where?"

Various - McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908