| 单词 | ring dollar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasring dollar ring dollar n. historical. originally Australian a Spanish dollar with a circular piece cut out of the centre, an official Australian currency 1814–28. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Australian coins ring dollar1828 holey (erron. holy) dollar1857 Australian nugget1986 1828 Tasmanian 29 Aug. 3 George Jones, charged with fraudulently obtaining a ring dollar from J. Hardy, was found Guilty. 1855 Banker's Mag. Feb. 123 The central portion was tender for a quarter-dollar, or 1s. 1d.; and the ring pieces, called ring dollars, were valued at 3s. 3d. 1870 T. H. Braim New Homes III. 131 The rest of the dollar, called from the circular piece taken out a ‘ring-dollar’, was valued at four shillings. 1920 V. Ross Hist. Canad. Bank Commerce 427 Another coin of interest in that it possesses a local history of its own, is the ‘ring dollar’. 1992 C. McCarthy Blood Meridian xix. 264 There were doubloons minted in Spain and in Guadalajara..and half eagles and ring dollars and dollars minted in North Carolina and Georgia that were twenty-two carats pure. < as lemmas |
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