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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Citation:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">''pistole; mohur; ducat; louis d'or; joes''</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Language:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">Spanish, Persian, Italian, French, Latin/Portuguese</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">References:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">''[[The Commodore (novel)|The Commodore]]'', page 7</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Meaning:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">a Spanish gold coin; a Persian/Indian gold coin; a Venetian gold coin; 'golden Louis', a French gold coin named for Kings of that country; a Portuguese gold coin, the ''Johannes'', named for Kings of that country</td>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 70%;">Notes:</p>
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A double ''pistole'' was called the ''doubloon''.

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