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GUINEA |
Gold coin |
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DUCAT |
Old gold coin |
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SOVEREIGN |
Old British gold coin |
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DARIC |
Any very pure gold coin. |
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FLOREN |
A cerain gold coin; a Florence. |
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DINAR |
An ancient gold coin of the East. |
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MOIDORE |
A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling. |
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NAPOLEON |
A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86. |
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DRACHMA |
A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents. |
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ANGELET |
A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half
angel. |
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IMPERIAL |
A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight
dollars. |
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BYZANTINE |
A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium.
See Bezant. |
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EAGLE |
A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten
dollars. |
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RYDER |
A gold coin of Zealand [Netherlands] equal to 14 florins,
about $ 5.60. |
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BEZANT |
A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin
called bezant. |
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MOHUR |
A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver
rupees, or $7.21. |
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SPECIES |
Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a
circulating medium; specie. |
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BROADPIECE |
An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a
Carolus or Jacobus. |
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UNIT |
A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty
shillings. |
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RIDER |
A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback
stamped upon it. |
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SCUDO |
A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling,
or about $ 15.70. |
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FLORENCE |
An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six
shillings sterling value. |
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SCUTE |
An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or
about 80 cents. |
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PIECE |
A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied
specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings. |
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JACOBUS |
An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five
shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I. |