1. Captain would also say "pieces of eight".

2. Pieces of Eight, a musical adaptation by Jule Styne, premiered in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1985.

3. I remember myself calling at his dressing room during the run of Pieces of Eight.

4. These were the so-called Spanish dollars or pieces of eight in wide circulation in the Americas and Asia from the height of the Spanish Empire until the early 19th century (the United States accepted the Spanish dollar as legal tender until the Coinage Act of 1857).