Definition

• An obsolete word used to indicate counterfeit money.

  Grosart, in his edition of the works of Robert Greene (x. 260), under the year 1592, quotes: "He went and got him a certaine slips, which are couuterfeyt peeces of mony being brasse, and couered oner with siluer, which the common people call slips."

Source

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

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