单词 | half-dime |
释义 | half-dimen. A silver coin of the United States, value 5 cents, issued from 1792 to 1873 (from 1866 of copper and nickel), popularly called a nickel. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > U.S. > five-cent piece half-dime1796 nickel1857 jitney1903 jit1913 1796 T. Twining Trav. Amer. (1894) 170 The silver coins, of dollars, half and quarter ditto, dimes or tenths, and half-dimes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2012). < n.1796 |
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