half joe

noun

A Portuguese gold coin, worth 3,200 reis, formerly current in North America.

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Meanings

nounhalf joe (plural half joes)

plural half joes

  1. CanadaUShistoricalA Portuguese gold coin, worth 3,200 reis, formerly current in North America.

    [M]y father's draft […] was paid in the Portuguese coin of half-Joes, or six-and-thirty shilling pieces, at that time made current in Great Britain.

    1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 59
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