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silver dollar 
1 Hist. in colonial days (until 1858 officially), the Spanish dollar, a silver coin valued at so many shillings Halifax currency or York currency.
See also: dollar (def. 1)
- 1826 I higgled for a whole half hour with farmer B---o before I bought his fat pig, and brought him down at last a silver dollar.
- 1836 A Silver Dollar t'other day/Flat on a Paper Dollar lay.
- 1913 It was gold louis abroad and silver dollars at home--that was the standard
2 a silver coin first issued by the Canadian government in 1935 and having the value of one dollar.
- 1958 Silver dollars have been issued every year since 1935, except during the war years of 1940 to 1944.
- 1826 I higgled for a whole half hour with farmer B---o before I bought his fat pig, and brought him down at last a silver dollar.