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- Title:
- Pieces Of Eight And Rice
- Description:
- Pirates captured Spanish galleons carrying silver dollars (also called Spanish pesos), one coin equal to 8 reales. A coin was sometimes cut like a pie into 8 triangular “wedges” that were used as currency. Morga recorded that in Filipinas, each native had to pay an annual tribute of 8 reales to the colonial government as set by Miguel Lopez de Legaspi (who began the Conquest in 1565). In kind: 2 fanegas of rice = 2 reales; 1 hen = 1/2 real; 1 woven cotton blanket = 4 reales. The rice tribute was needed to feed soldiers, sailors, Spanish settlers, etc. Natives had to increase production to pay tribute.
- Subjects:
- Tributes Rice tributes
- Exhibition:
- Antonio Morga 30
- Source:
- Ghost Ship PIN by Arthur Laser on Otherland, 2019.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Pieces Of Eight And Rice", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll054.html