• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 个月前

    The UK issued silver dollars once. They were dated 1804 and considered “bank tokens” as they had less silver than their denomination required at the time. They basically stamped a new design on Spanish colonial 8-real coins and passed them as five shillings.

    The UK had a hard time with coin supply for most of the 1700s until 1816 when they finally downdized many coins.