DCHP-3

beaver token

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 picture at beaver.

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

Quotations

1941
The North-west Company, about 1820, issued beaver tokens, a form of coinage only a few pieces of which, highly valued, have been saved by antiquarians.