Financials

Booty, shares, pursers, and prize courts—how pirates divided wealth and kept the books at sea.

A Pirate's Glossary
booty
A Pirate's Glossary
bounty
coffer
coffer
doubloon
doubloon
Escudo
Escudo
King’s Shilling
King’s Shilling
A Pirate's Glossary
loot
motherlode
motherlode
pieces of eight
pieces of eight
A Pirate's Glossary
plunder
Real
Real
zecchino
zecchino