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half-Johannes
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
half a Portuguese Johannes, a gold coin worth about $8.00, in circulation during colonial days.
Quotations
1772
The Public are caution'd to beware of receiving clipt and light Gold, chiefly in Half Johanneses, lately brought into this Province from New York.
1780
We also hear that several other robberies were committed the same week, particularly towards St. Roch, where a man had been stopp'd in the Street and robb'd of a half Johannes, another of two Dollars.