[see CAROLIN, CARLIN.] A name of coins of various countries and of different values; sometimes = CARLINE, or CAROLIN.
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind. (Arb.), 195. A rounde plate of syluer as brode as the coyne cauled a Corolyne.
1709. Lond. Gaz., No. 4571/2. (Naples) A Captain is to receive five Carolines a Day.
1717. Berkeley, in Fraser, Life (1871), 578. The clergy of Ischia get each a Caroline a mass.
1783. W. F. Martyn, Geog. Mag., II. 78. (Sweden) A caroline, (about one shilling and two-pence value).
1865. Athenæum, No. 1953. 448/2. The forty golden carolines with which the Grand-Duke … repaid the dedication.
