La moneda española en circulación en Canadá durante los siglos XVIII y XIX

• Main Author: Pedro Damián Cano Borrego
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Revista Numismática Hécate 2014
• Subjects: Dollars; Pistareens; Doubloon; Shilling; Halifax currency; Archaeology; CC1-960; Canada; Española; Newfoundland; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/dda1f27696f04919a0cd7e9df020808c

After the signing of the Paris Treaty in 1763, France ceded most of New France, including Canada, to Great Britain. Because of the scarcity of coins in circulation and the use of a very depreciated paper money, in May of 1765 the necessary acceptation of the Spanish pieces of eight was proclaimed. I...