Thirteener Pubblico Deposited
A name formerly current in Ireland for the English silver Shilling, the same being worth thirteen Pence of the Irish copper currency.
Lover, Handy Andy, (xiv.) says: "With a bold thirteen in the treasury;" and Thomas Crofton Croker, in his Legends of the Lakes (308), speaks of "golden guineas and lily-white thirteens."
Captain Mariyat, in his novel, The King's Own (xxi.), has the following: "Tie says that it's two thirteens that must be paid for it. . . . Have you two shillings?"
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)