rix-dollar

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      Alternative forms

      Alternative forms[1]

      α forms (re-initial):

      • reekes doller
      • reichs doller
      • rexdolar; rexdoler; rexdollar; rexdoller

      β forms (ri- or ry-initial):

      • ricksdoller; rycksdollar
      • rix dollar; rix doller; rixdollar; rixdoller
      • rixe dollar

      γ form (erroneously reinterpreted as an English phrase):

      • rich dollar

      Etymology

      From obsolete Dutch rijcksdaler, cognate to German Reichsthaler and to the English words riche and dollar.[1]

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      Noun

      rix-dollar (plural rix-dollars)

      1. (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.
      2. (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.

      Translations

      A rix-dollar

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      References

      1. ↑ 1.01.11.21.31.4 The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)
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