2253. DOLLAR, Coinage.—[continued].
Perhaps it would not be
amiss to coin three more pleces of silver, one
of the value of five-tenths, or half a dollar,
one of the value of two-tenths, which would
be equal to the Spanish pistereen, and one of
the value of five coppers, which would be
equal to the Spanish half-bit. We should
then have five silver coins, viz.:
1. The Unit or Dollar;
2. The half dollar or five-tenths:
3. The double-tenth, equal to 2, or one-fifth of
a dollar, or to the pistereen;
4. The tenth, equal to a Spanish bit:
5. The five copper piece, equal to 5, or onetwentieth
of a dollar, or the half bit.—
Notes on a Money Unit. Washington ed. i, 166.
Ford ed., iii, 450.
(1784)
