Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
rix-dollar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.
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- noun A unit of currency that was used in
Sweden between 1777 and 1873.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I at once hired one of these rooms, which was very clean and bright, and for which, with breakfast, I only paid one riksdaler, which is about one shilling.
Visit to Iceland Ida Pfeiffer 1827
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The paper currency (circulating since 1745) replaced with silver-based coinagethe riksdaler.
1768, Dec 2001
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"I'm rather short of coin myself," said the king quite frankly, "but do you think you could manage on eight hundred riksdaler a year?"
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger August Strindberg 1880
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A riksdaler is worth about twenty-seven cents of our money.
Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Oliver Optic 1859
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The government has adopted a decimal system, of which the unit is the _riksdaler_, containing one hundred _öre_.
Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Oliver Optic 1859
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The silver coins in use are the half and the quarter riksdaler, and the ten-öre piece; the latter being a very small coin.
Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Oliver Optic 1859
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The currency in circulation is almost entirely paper, though no bills smaller than one riksdaler are issued.
Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Oliver Optic 1859
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