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half-dime
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a coin worth five cents; nickel.
See: nickel
Quotations
1870
It was decided that the following should be the rates at which the depreciated coinage should be current:--Half dollar, 47c.; quarter, 23c.; dime, 9c.; half-dime, 4c.
1959
He joined almost the total juvenile population of the day in reading all the "half-dime" novels he could get.