silver dollar

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — Hist.

in colonial days (until 1858 officially), the Spanish dollar, a silver coin valued at so many shillings Halifax currency or York currency.

See: dollar (def. 1)

Quotations

1826

I higgled for a whole half hour with farmer B---o before I bought his fat pig, and brought him down at last a silver dollar.

1836

A Silver Dollar t'other day/Flat on a Paper Dollar lay.

1913

It was gold louis abroad and silver dollars at home--that was the standard

a silver coin first issued by the Canadian government in 1935 and having the value of one dollar.

1958

Silver dollars have been issued every year since 1935, except during the war years of 1940 to 1944.