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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A copper coin struck by Peter the Great of Russia in 1724, to be given to those who had paid the tax of 50 rubles every year for the privilege of wearing their beards.
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During thirty-eight years in Russia, the beard-token or Borodoráia (the bearded), as it was called, was in use.
At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History William Andrews 1878
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