Definition

• An English sland expression meaning a six pence. Grose, in A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785, has "Fiddlers' Money, all sixpences." The term may have originated from the old custon of each couple at a dance paying the fiddler sixpence.

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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