quarter-eagle

See also: quarter eagle

English

Noun

quarter-eagle (plural quarter-eagles)

  1. Alternative form of quarter eagle.
    • 1797 December 23 – 1798 January 6, “Congressional. House of Representatives.”, in The Washington Gazette, volume II, number 25, Washington, D.C.: Benjamin More, →OCLC, front page, column 1:
      It is alſo ſtated that the quantity of gold coin iſſued during the ſame period, has been 9177 eagles[,] 6400 half-eagles, 1756 quarter-eagles; equal to the value of 128,190 dollars.
    • 1861 June, [Theodore Winthrop], “New York Seventh Regiment”, in The Atlantic Monthly. […], volume VII, number XLIV, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, […]; London: Trübner and Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 745, columns 1–2:
      Pretty little gloves pelted us with love-taps. The sterner sex forced upon us pocket-knives new and jagged, combs, soap, slippers, boxes of matches, cigars by the dozen and the hundred, pipes to smoke shag and pipes to smoke Latakia, fruit, eggs, and sandwiches. One fellow got a new purse with ten bright quarter-eagles.
    • 2023 August 12–13, “U.S. currency denominations smaller than they used to be”, in Daily Chronicle, DeKalb, Ill.: Shaw Local News Network, →OCLC, page 8, columns 1–2:
      Gold coins were in U.S. circulation through 1933, when the gold standard was abolished. Many were based on the $10 “eagle,” with corresponding quarter-eagles of $2.50, half-eagles of $5, and double-eagles of $20, along with 1-dollar gold pieces.
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