单词 | quarter-guinea |
释义 | > as lemmasquarter-guinea quarter-guinea n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > guinea or twenty-one shillings > half- or quarter-guinea smelt1635 quarter-guinea1695 half-guinea1696 1695 W. Lowndes Rep. Amendm. Silver Coins 11 A Guinea should be established at Four and Twenty Shillings, which, if Coined into Quarter-Guinea's, would be very useful in way of Trade. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 140 Quarter guineas more deficient in weight than..1 dwt. 8 grs. 1803 Hatchett in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 137 George I. a quarter-guinea. 1990 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 50 792 The attempt to introduce a quarter-guinea coin..failed in 1718. < as lemmas |
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