beaver standard

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a system of values, the unit of which was one beaver skin (def. 2).

See: beaver skin(def. 2)

Quotations

1963

It could however be purchased with fox, muskrat, or other skins in their proportional value to the "Beaver" standard.