Definizione

• A Scotch and Irish dialect term for counterfeit bronze or copper coin.

  In Cruck-a-Leaghan, and Slieve Gallion, Lays and Legends of the North of Ireland, 1884 (p. 21), occur the following lines: "Sarchin' for goold - it was shurely a mock To find only ashes inside av the pot. And divil a tinker among the whole lot."

Fonte

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

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