DCHP-2

silver dollar DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.