Definition

• A popular name for the five-pound note of the Bank of England.

  Whyte Melville, in Digby Grand, 1853 (i.), says: "Spooner . . . loses a five-pound note, or, as he calls it, a fiver" ; and Doyle, in Sherlock Holmes, has, "I'll lay you a fiver . . . that you will never hear from him again."

Quelle

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

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