Definition of Half dollar

1. Noun. A United States coin worth half of a dollar.

Exact synonyms: Fifty-cent Piece
Generic synonyms: Coin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Half Dollar

half board
half boot
half brother
half brother-in-law
half brothers
half brothers-in-law
half cadence
half cadences
half cell
half cells
half cousin
half cross stitch
half crown
half cut
half cystine
half dollar (current term)
half door
half dozen
half eagle
half forward
half gainer
half glove
half gross
half hatchet
half hitch
half hitches
half life
half lit
half marathon
half marathons

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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