stuiver

[stahy-ver] /ˈstaɪ vər/

noun

stiver (def 1).

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I agreed once for all to accept three hundred, and I will certainly not be burdened with a stuiver more.

Dreamers of the Ghetto I. Zangwill
My good friend acquired for me at Amsterdam a stuiver of Batavia, 1644 which he reported to me as beau.

The Confessions of a Collector William Carew Hazlitt
A "stuiver in zeewan" was equivalent to less than half a cent of our money.

A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County Stephen Ostrander

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