Definition

• A West Indian silver piece cut from a Spanish Dollar. It corresponded to the Bit (q.v.), and was extensively used in the islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe. See Zay, Histoire monetaire des colonies franchises. 1892, and Chalmers, History of Currency in the British Colonies. 1893 (passim).

  The name is probably a corruption of the French morceau, but Chalmers states that "Moco seems to be an abbreviation of the word Maccochino, of which the forms Maccaroni and Macquina were employed in Jamaica and Trinidad to denote cut money."

Quelle

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

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