Smasher Public Deposited

Definition

  • A vulgar term for a counterfeit coin, and now rare. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, 1851 (ii. 488), has: "Every bit of it, every coin, ...was bad, -all smashers."

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

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