| 单词 | bank dollar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbank dollar bank dollar n. now historical (originally) a (silver) dollar coin issued by a bank in northern Europe; cf. dollar n. 1; (later usually) a countermarked or over-stamped Spanish piece of eight issued as currency by the Bank of England in the early 19th cent.; cf. dollar n. 2. ΚΠ 1644 C. Cavendish Let. 10 Oct. in J. O. Halliwell Lett. Sci. Subj. (1841) 85 What difference there is between banck dollers and rixdollers I knowe not, but I intended you should receive to the value of £5 sterling. 1696 H. Chamberlen Coll. Papers conc. Clipt & Counterfeit Money 14 Have the Bank-Dollers in Holland been altered in their Name or Weight by the rise of Bullion there? 1780 tr. U. von Troil Lett. on Iceland 132 They are obliged to sell a vaett..of dried fish to the company..which they sell again in Hamburgh, where the greatest part of what is caught in Iceland is usually sent, for five bank-dollars. 1810 Scots Mag. Aug. 632/1 The defendant gave him the guineas, and he paid him 56l. in notes, and 5s. by a Bank dollar. 1904 H. D. Traill & J. S. Mann Social Eng.: 1714–1815 V. p. xlvi The stamp and another, substituted in 1804, were counterfeited, and the Bank dollar was then struck (at the Soho Mint, Birmingham). 2004 Numismatist Sept. 53/1 Authorizing the Bank of England to produce ‘Bank dollars’. < as lemmas |
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