Definizione

• A slang name for an English Sixpence. The word may be a corruption of Danaro, or from the Gypsy tano, mean- ing little, the coin being a small one when compared with the Shilling. Dickens uses the term in Martin Chuzzlewit (xxxvii.).

Fonte

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

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