Quebec currency

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of the standards of currency in use in British North America in colonial times.

See: Quebec Bill(def. 1)

Quotations

1765

Quebec Currency . . . Exchange at 33 1/3 p.ct. . . .

1793

All advertisements inserted in it and not exceeding 12 lines will pay 4s. Quebec Currency. . . .

1909

For £101, Quebec currency, those five chiefs "gave, granted, etc.," that tract of land butted and bounded as follows. . . .