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Définition
  • A name given to four varieties of brass tokens which were issued about the year 1857 and used by the Hudson's Bay Company in its tradings with the Indians. The largest of these tokens is of the value of one beaver skin, and the others are fractions of one half, one quarter, and one eighth. See Breton (926-929)

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

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