DCHP-3

beaver coin

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of the coins or tokens constituting beaver currency.

See: beaver(def. 5a),beaver currency

Quotations

<i>c</i>1902
Montagnais's squaw has only fifty "beaver" coin, and her desires are a hundredfold what these will buy.