The Coin book Comprising a History of Coinage a Synopsis of the Mint Laws of T
The Coin book Comprising a History of Coinage a Synopsis of the Mint Laws of T
Isaac Smith Homans
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The half dobra of Brazil, coined of gold by Petrus Second; date, 18:^2; value, c£l 15s. LOJ^d. Sterling. Dollar. A silver coin, the unit of the United States, taken from the old Spanish dollar or piastre, and is only slightly less. In 1849, when there was a great influx of gold from California, gold dollars were largely i-^sued. The origin of the word dillar is from the Ger- man Thaler, Low German Dahler, Danish Daler. — C. C. Vol. 3, 620. Dollar is also the nam > of a silver coin cf Spain and ...of the United States, worth 100 cents, or about 43. 2d. Sterling; first struck in the United States in 179fj. The Dollar, ( Thaler), appears to have been originally a German coin, and in vadous parrs of Germany there are coins of diff^reut values, so called. The dollar issued by the mint of the United States weighs 412. 5 grains, and is a legal tender for any sum. 128 ^'^' Origin i^ Noted Cuins. The dollar seems to have been a coin k"OT7n to the scholars of the sixteenth century. It is mentioned in ShaKspeaee's " Tempest;" also in " Measure Jor Measure, " and ^^ Macbeth.
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