half joe
English
Noun
- (chiefly Canada, US, now historical) A Portuguese gold coin, worth 3,200 reis, formerly current in North America.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 59:
- [M]y father's draft […] was paid in the Portuguese coin of half-Joes, or six-and-thirty shilling pieces, at that time made current in Great Britain.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 59:
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