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Larin (currency) (375 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

made by private parties, five of which went to a piece-of-eight, or a Spanish Dollar. These coins with a shape like a fish-hook, bear no legend, or at best

British America (1,459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Revolutionary War 1775–1783 • Treaty of Paris 1783 Currency Pound sterling, Spanish dollar, bills of credit, commodity money, and many local currencies

Picayune, Mississippi (1,323 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"picayune" was the name of a Spanish coin, worth half a real or 1/16 of a Spanish dollar (6.25 cents). Its name derives from the French "picaillon", which is

Clark County, Missouri (1,029 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

land was sold there for just twelve and one-half cents ("one bit" of a Spanish dollar) an acre. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total

Flag of Argentina (2,596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Argentine coin, approved in 1813, whose value was eight escudos (one Spanish dollar). It has 16 straight and 16 waved sunbeams.[citation needed] In 1978

Australian English vocabulary (4,731 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

prior to decimal currency was called a "Dollar", in reference to the Spanish Dollar and "Holey Dollar" which circulated at a value of five shillings, but

Quebec French lexicon (3,150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was in fact the term originally used in French for the American or Spanish dollar (they had the same value for a long period). The word couple is used

List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L) (1,415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1970s, especially in "half-dollar"=half-crown, but some re-stamped Spanish dollar coins were used in the UK in the late 18th/early 19th century) major

Michael Shiner (7,011 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

their guns painted with red vermilion, and the iron work shined like a Spanish dollar." Writing in 1878 he recalled, "At the time of the battle of Bladensburg

Tlingit nouns (5,154 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

“dime, ten cents” < CJ bit [pət] < Eng. bit “ten cents, one eighth of a Spanish dollar” (see bit (money)) kwáadaa “quarter” < CJ kwata [ˈkʰwata] < Eng. quarter

News media in Puerto Rico (2,315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published twice a week (Wednesdays and Saturdays) and would cost 1 Spanish dollar. Through the 1800s several newspapers began publication including "Diario