Definition

• also variously written Piste- reen and Pistoreen. The name given to the Spanish silver piece of two Reales, in- troduced at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Its value was one fourth of the corresponding new Peso, but it was rated at one fifth of the old type Peso, the latter being of inferior silver. It was frequently divided or cut for use in the British West Indies. See Chalmers (pp. 53 and 395).

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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