lion dollar

noun

: a silver dollar of the Netherlands having a lion rampant on the obverse and first issued in 1575

called also leeuwendaalder

Word History

Etymology

translation of Dutch leeuwendaalder; from the lion rampant on the obverse

First Known Use

1697, in the meaning defined above

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