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noun See Table at currency.
noun A coin or note worth one dollar.

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The English name of the large silver German coin called thaler: also applied to similar coins of the Low Countries and of Scandinavia; to the large silver coin of Spain, the celebrated “Spanish dollar,” or peso, also called pillar dollar (from its figure of the Pillars of Hercules) and piece of eight (as containing 8 reals); and later to a large silver coin succeeding the Spanish dollar in Spanish America. The Duke of Wirtemberg is agreed w Magister Teutonici ordinis, so that the duke shall have for his charges 66,000 dalers. Quoted in E. Lodge's Illus., etc., Reign of Edw. VI., [No. 23. He disbursed at St. Colmes' inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use. Shak., Macbeth, i. 2. Now touching Danske money, … they have their Grasshe, whereof 30 make 1 gilderne, which is woorthe 4 shillings sterling, and they have also Dollars olde and new; their common dollar is 35 grasshe, but of their new dollars some are woorthe 24 grasshe, some 26, and some 30. Recorde, Grounde of Artes, fol. 159.
The monetary unit or standard of value of the United States and Canada, containing 100 cents, and equal to about 4s. 1⅓d. English. In the United States it is represented in the currency by gold and silver coins and by notes; in Canada by notes only. A two-dollar gold coin is current in Newfoundland. This unit was established in the United States under the confederation of the States, by resolution of Congress, July 6th, 1787. It was represented by a silver piece, the coinage of which was authorized by the act of Congress, August 8th, 1786, by which was also established the decimal system of coinage. The coinage was not begun until two years after the law of April 2d, 1792, establishing the mint. That law provided for the coinage of “dollars or units, each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar,” as that coin was then current, and to contain 371¼ grains of pure silver, or 416 grains of standard silver. The Spanish dollar above mentioned was that struck in Spanish America. Spanish-American dollars, and coins representing halves, quarters, eighths, and sixteenths of them (the last two known as shillings and sixpences in New York and some other States, and by other names elsewhere), were abundant in the United States during the latter part of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Spanish dollar coined in Spain was rare, but the intrinsic value of the two coins was the same. By an act of January 18th, 1837, the dollar was made to consist of 412½ grains fine, the quantity of pure silver remaining the same, 371¼ grains. This dollar, being worth in market value from 100 to 104 cents, went out of circulation. An act of March 3d, 1849, directed the coinage of gold dollars of 25.8 grains fine, 23.22 being pure gold; and by act of February 12th, 1873, this was declared the unit of value of the United States. An act of February 28th, 1878, directed the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase silver bullion, not less than $2,000,000 nor more than $4,000,000 per month, and cause it to be coined into standard silver dollars. The coins representing fractional parts of the dollar are: in silver, the half-dollar and quarter-dollar, or 50-cent and 25-cent pieces, and the dime or 10-cent piece; in nickel, the half-dime or 5-cent piece (originally in silver, and inconveniently small); and in bronze, the cent (originally in copper, and much larger) and the 2-cent piece. There is also a 3-cent piece, originally coined in silver and afterward in nickel, which has been little used owing to its inconvenient smallness in both forms. By the term dollar in the United States notes is intended the coined dollar of the United States, a certain quantity in weight and fineness of gold or silver, authenticated as such by the stamp of the government. Sometimes abbreviated dol., but commonly represented by the symbol $ (the dollar-mark) before the number. The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. Irving, The Creole Village. The Congress of 1792 fixed the monetary unit of the United States in coin, gave it the name Dollar, made it the unit of the money of account in their offices and courts, [and] named also its multiples and fractions. Report of Sec. of Treasury, 1886, I. xiv.
Almighty dollar. See almighty.

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He is supplying money—in American dollars, a large amount but easily handled, which came into the country this morning. — MacInnes, Helen - The Venetian Affair
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Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake as the Obama administration prepares its strategy to rescue the nation's banks. — The Caucus
I still think Cole needs another year to grow physically and work on his game, but who could blame him if the dollars are there!
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