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Definition of Half dollar
1. Noun. A United States coin worth half of a dollar.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half Dollar
Literary usage of Half dollar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"This provision applies to the half-dollar and all silver coins below that ...
18, 1837 ; the weight of the half-dollar being by this act fixed at two ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1869)
"... 39:>) and in the silver coins, a grain and a half in the dollar and half
dollar, and a grain The methods and machinery of coinage had been so improved ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"And the standard weight of the gold dollar shall be twenty-five and eight tenths
grains; of the quarter-eagle, or" two-and- a-half dollar piece, sixty-four ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1869)
"... and a quarter of a grain in the quarter eagle or gold dollar; (19 US St., 39s)
and in the silver coins, a grain and a half in the dollar and half dollar ..."
5. Select Statutes and Other Documents Illustrative of the History of the by William MacDonald (1903)
"And the standard weight of the gold dollar shall be twenty-five and eight-tenths
grains; of the quarter-eagle, or two-and-a-half dollar piece, sixty-four ..."
6. Report of the Monetary Commission of the Indianapolis Convention of Boards by James Laurence Laughlin (1898)
"And the standard weight of the gold dollar shall be twenty-five and eight-tenths
grains ; of the quarter-eagle, or two and a half dollar piece, sixty-four ..."
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