moidore

Example sentences from the Web for moidore

• On one occasion General Stone, the authority for the previous anecdote, crossed the ferry and offered a moidore in payment.

  George Washington, Vol. II |Henry Cabot Lodge

• The moidore and the johannes were Portuguese coins, the pistole Spanish.

  Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period |Various

• The moidore was worth six pieces of eight, the pistole four, the johannes eight.

  Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period |Various

• Now let us go and sell the mantle, the gold alone is well worth a moidore.

  The Bible in Spain |George Borrow