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Holey dollar

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Holey dollar is the name given to coins used in the early history of two British settlements: Prince Edward Island (now part of Canada) and New South Wales (now part of Australia). [1]

41 relations: British Guiana, Chennai, Coin, Creative Commons license, Dictionary of Sydney, Dominica, Dominican dollar, Dutch corvette Scipio (1784), East India Company, Eastern Canada, Elizabeth II, Governor, Grenada, Grenadian dollar, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lachlan Macquarie, Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder, Macquarie Group, New South Wales, Numismatics, Obverse and reverse, Penny (British pre-decimal coin), Philip Gidley King, Pound sterling, Prince Edward Island, Principality of Hutt River, Rum Rebellion, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Vincent dollar, Shilling, Silver, Spanish dollar, State Library of New South Wales, The Sun (Sydney), The Sydney Morning Herald, The Western Star (Queensland), Tobago, Townsville Bulletin, Trinidad, William Bligh, Windsor and Richmond Gazette.

British Guiana

British Guiana was the name of the British colony, part of the British West Indies (Caribbean), on the northern coast of South America, now known as the independent nation of Guyana.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Coin

A coin is a small, flat, (usually) round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.

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Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.

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Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney is a digital humanities project to produce an online, expert-written encyclopedia of all aspects of the history of Sydney.

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Dominica

Dominica (Island Carib), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island republic in the West Indies.

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Dominican dollar

The history of currency in the British colony of Dominica closely follows that of the British Eastern Caribbean territories in general.

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Dutch corvette Scipio (1784)

The Dutch corvette Scipio was launched in 1784.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Eastern Canada

Eastern Canada (also the Eastern provinces) is generally considered to be the region of Canada east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Governor

A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state.

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Grenada

Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.

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Grenadian dollar

The history of currency in the British colony of Grenada closely follows that of the British Eastern Caribbean territories in general.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

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Lachlan Macquarie

Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB (Lachann MacGuaire; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland.

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Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

The Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder was a weekly, later bi-weekly, English language newspaper published in Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia beginning around 1895 and continuing until 1952.

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Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group Limited is a global investment banking and diversified financial services group.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Numismatics

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects.

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Obverse and reverse

Obverse and its opposite, reverse, refer to the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags, seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics.

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Penny (British pre-decimal coin)

The pre-decimal penny (1d) was a coin worth of a pound sterling.

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Philip Gidley King

Captain Philip Gidley King (23 April 1758 – 3 September 1808) was the third Governor of New South Wales, and did much to civilise the young colony in the face of great obstacles.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands.

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Principality of Hutt River

The Principality of Hutt River, often referred to by its former name, the Hutt River Province, is a micronation in Australia.

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Rum Rebellion

The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a sovereign state in the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Saint Vincent dollar

The history of currency in the British colony of Saint Vincent closely follows that of the British Eastern Caribbean territories in general.

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Shilling

The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in Austria, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States, and other British Commonwealth countries.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.

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Spanish dollar

The Spanish dollar, also known as the piece of eight (peso de ocho or real de a ocho), is a silver coin, of approximately 38 mm diameter, worth eight Spanish reales, that was minted in the Spanish Empire after 1598.

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State Library of New South Wales

The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large reference and research library open to the public.

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The Sun (Sydney)

The Sun was an afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published under this name in 1910.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Western Star (Queensland)

The Western Star and Roma Advertiser, later published as the Western Star, is one of the longest continuously published newspapers in outback Queensland.

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Tobago

Tobago is an autonomous island within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Townsville Bulletin

The Townsville Bulletin is a daily newspaper published in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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William Bligh

Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

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Windsor and Richmond Gazette

Windsor and Richmond Gazette, later published as the Hawkesbury Gazette, was a weekly English language compact format newspaper published in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holey_dollar

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