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(historical) An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
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(historical) A small gold coin once used in England; a half angel.
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Alternative form of bezant [(historical) A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.]
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Obsolete form of bezant. [(historical) A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.]
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(archaic, historical, obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .
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(historical) An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, such as a Carolus or Jacobus.
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(law, dated) The legal money of a country.
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Obsolete spelling of coin [(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.]
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(obsolete, colloquial) The pre-1873 American silver dollar.
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(Canada, slang, numismatics) A Canadian two-dollar coin; a toonie.
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(South Africa, historical) An English penny, worth the same as the Dutch coin.
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Alternative form of ducaton [(historical) A crown-sized silver coin of the 16th-18th centuries.]
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(historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
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(historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.
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(numismatics) A coin die. (Compare planchet.)
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(US, economics, historical) The free coinage of silver, often at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.
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(slang, archaic) A coin bearing King George's profile.
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(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A one-dollar or two-dollar coin.
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(US) Any bill that is legal tender in the US (originally printed with green and black ink) issued by the Federal Reserve.
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(Britain, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
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(US, numismatics, historical) A gold coin with a face value of five dollars, formerly used in the United States, one-half the value of the US eagle coin.
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(historical) A former British gold coin having a value of ten shillings.
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(historical) A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire.
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(historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
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(numismatics, historical) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.
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A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent).
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(historical) An old Scottish coin, with a lion on the obverse, worth 74 shillings.
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(Canada, informal, by extension) The dollar as the Canadian unit of currency.
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(numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
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(historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.
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A coin made in a besieged city, often impure or made from inferior materials.
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(historical, Scotland) An old Scots unit of measure equal to 20 pennylands.
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(historical) A coin of ancient Corinth, with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.
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An unspecified, but very small amount of money.
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Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
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The symbol £, representing the pound sterling.
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The currency of the United Kingdom.
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(countable) a charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling
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(historical) An old gold coin of England.
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(historical) An ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III.
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(dated) The Australian decimal currency intended to replace the pound in 1966; was changed to "dollar" before it was actually circulated.
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(obsolete) A gold coin of Zealand (Netherlands) worth 14 florins.
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(numismatics, historical) Synonym of escaline, (particularly) the form circulated by Stephen de Fulbourn in Ireland as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.
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(historical) A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.
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Pronunciation spelling of shilling. [(historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.]
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(US, historical, New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
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(historical) An object or quantity that can be purchased for a shilling.
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Shekel or small silver coin of little value.
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(obsolete) Synonym of shilling: an English unit of account and, following the Tudor dynasty, silver coin.
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A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
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(historical) A former English gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV, having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur.
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(US, numismatics) A gold coin with a face value of $4.00 proposed for use in the United States in the 19th century.
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(not comparable) of, or relating to British currency, or the former British coinage.
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(historical) A Scottish silver coin under King James VI, worth two shillings and sixpence in English money of the time, and bearing a sword on the reverse.
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(historical) Any of various gold or silver ingots used as currency in imperial China.
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(obsolete) The English silver shilling.
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Obsolete form of testoon. [An old Italian silver coin.]
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(historical) An Anglo-Saxon denomination of money; it may or may not have been a coin.
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(Britain, informal, dated) Two pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency).
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(numismatic slang) A Lincoln cent produced after 1982, made from copper-plated zinc rather than its earlier composition of 95% copper.
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