The question I have came from a book “The Making of America” by W. Cleon Skousen in which on page 615 there is a quote of Thomas Jefferson concerning juries judging the law as well as the facts of a case. “But the common sense of twelve honest men gives still a better chance of just decision, than the hazard of cross and pile.” I looked it up and “cross and pile” refers to flipping a coin where the cross side or the pile side is face up. Spanish money aparently was often used in the colonies at that time and I see the cross side but I wonder about the “pile” side. I see something with 5 hills but that would be too late as this was written sometime after the Constitution was put forth and approved by the people to be the law of the land.
Is there another spanish coin that he could be writing about? Thank you.