Moby Dick Coin
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moby-dick-coin-230-2288444
title:
Moby Dick Coin
text:
Known in the numismatic world as a "Moby Dick Coin", the Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon, minted in Quito, Ecuador, between 1838 and 1843, is the one ounce of gold "sixteen dollar piece" Captain Ahab nails to the mast of the Pequod, promising it to the first man who "raises" Moby-Dick. The coin is first mentioned in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, in Chapter 36 "The Quarter Deck" and later at length in Chapter 99 "The Doubloon". It is often mistaken as a Spanish doubloon, but this coin was
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description:
Ecuadorian doubloon described in Moby Dick
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_Coin
date created:
2008-03-20T22:00:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T20:01:50Z
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