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From: Mike Maurice
Empire of Blue Water
Tue, Dec 11, 2007 5:59 PM
That silver turned into coins; nearly 3 billion of
them. And, the coins, like fish in the sea, migrated and became food for
other fish and world trade exploded.
And what became of the Spanish; having stripped their colonies of their
gold and silver! The colonies sank into economic quicksand.