doblan.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
An obsolete Spanish gold coin.
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doubloon1622
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dobla1829
morabitino1909
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. Dobla, a peece of money called a double containing 23 rials and a halfe, of English money ten shillings ten pence halfepenie.]
1829 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada (1850) i. 22 (Stanf.) An annual tribute of twelve thousand doblas or pistoles of gold.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. v. 371 A substantial donative of gold doblas.
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