Rix-dollar

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, ·etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. ·see Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.

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