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dollar of the daddies

Noun CEFR C2
ˈdɑlɚ ə(v)ðə ˌdædiz

Definitions

The pre-1873 American silver dollar.

colloquial, obsolete

Examples

And now irreverent jokers complain that the "Dollar of the Daddies" is below pa.”
You say that youwant to restore silver"; now let us have the old conditions. “We want the 'dollar of the daddies',” is your cry.”
Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.”

CEFR level

C2
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