Définition

• An obsolete English sland term for money of small denominations such as would be likely to be paid at the grocery for purchases.

  Bailey, in his English Dictionary, 1721, has: "Grocery, . . . small Money as Farthings and Half-Pence."

  J. H. Vaux, in the Flash Dictionary, 1812, has: "Grocery, half-pence, or copper coin, in a collective sense."

La source

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

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