British dollar

American  

noun

1. any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.

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Example Sentences

The British dollar crisis seriously affected Western Europe's hesitant start toward economic integration.

From Time Magazine Archive

The result was a run on the British dollar supply.

From Time Magazine Archive

In real life, boarding the Mauretania en route to the Washington conference on the British dollar crisis, Ministers Bevin and Cripps tried to be less doleful.

From Time Magazine Archive

The British dollar of 416 grains is the principal coin.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

The currency is the Mexican and British dollar, the company issuing its own copper coin—viz. cents and half cents.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various