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Webster 1913 Edition
Rix-dollar
Rix′-dolˊlar
,Noun.
[Sw.
riksdaler
, or Dan. rigsdaler
, or D. rijksdaalder
, or G. reichsthaler
, literally, dollar of the empire or realm, fr. words akin to E. rich
, and dollar
. See Rich
, Dollar
.] 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
. ☞ Most of these pieces are now no longer coined, but some remain in circulation.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rix-dollar
RIX-DOL'LAR
, n.A silver coin of Germany, Denmark and Sweden, of different value in different places. In Hamburg and some other parts of Germany, its value is the same as the American dollar, or 4-6d sterling. In other parts of Germany, its value is 3-6d sterling, or about 78 cents.
Definition 2024
rix-dollar
rix-dollar
See also: rixdollar
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Noun
rix-dollar (plural rix-dollars)
- (historical) A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16th to the mid-19thcenturies in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.[1]
- 1803, [Author Unknown], Medical Journal — Volume IX, p539
- At all other times they would receive the regular salary of thirty rix-dollars monthly.
- 1803, [Author Unknown], Medical Journal — Volume IX, p539
- (historical) A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.[1]
- 1962, Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson, Coins: ancient, mediaeval & modern, p533
- The Dutch monetary system of a rix-dollar or rijksdaalder of 48 stuiver was continued [in Cape Province] by the British in the early nineteenth century.
- 1962, Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson, Coins: ancient, mediaeval & modern, p533
Translations
A rix-dollar
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