Gold coins.
1810.
| One hundred Eagles was the price; | |
| I paid the shiners in a trice. | |
The Repertory, Oct. 16: from the Hampshire Federalist. |
1824. The Dutchmen in Albany are not so weak and illiterate as to throw away their shiners for the trash of a Cockney.—The Microscope, Albany, May 22.
1827. The New Yorkers were much puzzled the other day at one of our little country banks paying out $13,000 in shiners.—Mass. Spy, Oct. 3: from the Providence American.
