Old gold coin of Portugal

Usage examples of moidore.

The Santa Anna, which he had waylaid, had proved to be a veritable treasure ship, laden with such minted coins as doubloons, golden moidores, pieces of eight, and cross money, to say nothing of plate, silks, lace, and other rare fabrics that would fetch good money at Port Royal, where unscrupulous traders were making fortunes.

However, when at last the job was done, and they tossed into the bucket the last few coins that remained, Biggles estimated that between forty and fifty thousand doubloons, moidores, and ducats, with a sprinkling of oriental pieces, had been carried.

Neither Gerard nor Torry sensed anything amiss, but Tom Moidore, that shrewd man of affairs, despite sitting opposite to Trish and Alien, felt rather than saw the silent message which passed between them.

He had remained silent after his re mark about South Africa and--last again--he walked to the drawing room to sit quiet, and outwardly deferential, on a chair near the sofa on which Torry and Trish sat, away from the armchairs of Gerard and Tom Moidore.

The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them.

He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores.