Dog Dollars Público Deposited
In an act of the Assembly of West Jersay, dated October 3-18, 1693, it is stated that "Dog Dollars not clipt," are worth six Shillings each, being of the same value as Mexican "pieces of eight" of twelve pennyweight.
The Assembly of the Province of Maryland in 1708 passed a law fixing the rates of exchange, and this act mentions Dog Dollars as being the money which was most plentiful in the Province, and with which the inhabitants were best acquainted; upon them the value of four shillings and sixpence was placed. In the laws of Pennsylvania, these coins are frequently mentioned as the Lion or Dog Dollars, and are rated in 1723 at five Shillings.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)