moidore

• "I'll give thee a gold moidore, instead, my maid. —  Audrey
• Both these kinds of people, I am forced to employ, till their wages amount to a double pistole,[5] or a moidore, (for we hardly have any gold of lower value left among us) to divide it among themselves as they can; and this is generally done at an ale-house or brandy shop; where, besides the cost of getting drunk, (which is usually the case) they must pay tenpence or a shilling, for changing their piece into silver, to some huckstering fellow, who follows that trade. —  The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
• In 1737 the moidore was reduced to £_1 9_s_. —  The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
• The moidore was worth six pieces of eight, the pistole four, the johannes eight. —  Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
• Here's gold moidore from Virginia -- here -- no, not that -- that's keepsakes the girls gave me. —  The Virginians

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