spade guinea

British  

noun

1. history a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III

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Example Sentences

And Raymond never forgot this adventure; and as a kind of pledge of its reality he ever afterwards wore the spade guinea round his neck by a silken string.

From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian

But this ugly dwarf said, "You belong to me; and to prove it, here is the other half of the spade guinea that is hanging round your neck!"

From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian

I had lost my brother-in-law, an army doctor, in the war, and I had given him a spade guinea for his first fee, which he always wore on his chain.

From The Vital Message by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

It did not seem different from any other spade guinea, yet there must have been something peculiar about it.

From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian

Might not that half of the spade guinea give the dwarf some power over her?

From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian