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York money Obs. 
the standard of currency established at New York, where the dollar was set as equivalent to eight shillings, a unit of account used during much of the colonial period in Montreal, Quebec City, and Upper Canada.
See also: York currency
- 1853 In one place we make our calculations in York money--in another we have the American computation of dollars and cents; in a third place we use the ordinary currency.
- 1853 In one place we make our calculations in York money--in another we have the American computation of dollars and cents; in a third place we use the ordinary currency.