shinplasters

This law had the beneficial effect of driving out of circulation "shinplasters" and worn coins, and supplied in ample quantity new full weight silver coins of handsome device, the government receiving the profit of the difference between the market value of the silver and its coinage value.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

Small change was scarce, and fractional notes, called "shinplasters," were issued in many parts of the United States.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

But it looked so much like the "shinplasters" we are forced to use, that no wonder they made the mistake.

A Confederate girl's diary, 1913

Throughout most of the war they were supplemented by the notes of state banks, local token-money, and fractional currency, or "shinplasters," of the United

The New Nation William E. [Editor] Dodd 1912

But it looked so much like the "shinplasters" we are forced to use, that no wonder they made the mistake.

A Confederate Girl's Diary Sarah Morgan Dawson 1875

The greatest inconvenience existed among retail dealers for small change, and "shinplasters" were freely used.

Foreign and Colonial News 1862

(Illustration: "Mock bank note parodying the" shinplasters "of the 1837 panic.

Bouphonia Phila 2008

Twenty-five cent and one cent shinplasters were brought into camp and laughed at by men who were afterward glad to get shinplasters from another manufactory.

Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens

The druggist gave me, in the way of change, several miserably executed shinplasters.

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

Congress, by Act of July 17, 1862, prohibited the issue of shinplasters by private corporations or individuals, provided for the issuance to the public of postage and other stamps and declared that, under certain limitations, these were receivable in payment of dues to the United States and were redeemable in greenbacks.

Chapter XI 1917