Note 1 — LETTER XXVIII.
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According to Halifax currency, which is the established, currency of Lower Canada, the dollar passes for five shillings.
The silver coins current in Canada are dollars, halves, quarters, eighths, and sixteenths of dollars, pistareens, Spanish coins somewhat less valuable than quarter dollars, and French and English crowns and half crowns. Gold coins pass only as bullion by weight. British and Portugal gold coins are deemed the best; next to them those of Spain, then those of France.