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fifty-cent piece 
a large silver coin worth half a Canadian dollar.
- 1897 During the present year the lowest standard of value in actual use there, has been the fifty-cent piece, or, in the parlance of the town, "four bits."
- 1955 "It now means that the 1955 dollar will not buy more gasoline than the 1939 50-cent piece," said the Provincial Treasurer.
- 1897 During the present year the lowest standard of value in actual use there, has been the fifty-cent piece, or, in the parlance of the town, "four bits."