Definition of Shinplaster. Meaning of Shinplaster. Synonyms of Shinplaster

- Shinplaster was paper money of low denomination, typically less than one dollar, circulating widely in the economies of the 19th century where there was...
- $1, i.e. fractional currency, sometimes pejoratively referred to as shinplasters. In the 16th century, Count Hieronymus Schlick of Bohemia began minting...
- coins early 19th century Tokens and Army Bills – War of 1812 British Shinplaster 1870s United States silver coins 1868–1869 Dollar Dominican dollar Grenadian...
- Fractional currency, also referred to as shinplasters, was introduced by the United States federal government following the outbreak of the Civil War....
- first issue was in denominations of twenty-five cents (nicknamed a "shinplaster"), one dollar and two dollars. The twenty-five cent note featured Britannia...
- payment of taxes. Texans increasingly relied on United States currency, shinplasters and private obligations. The end of the redback coincided with the presidency...
- every sort of business resorted to paying their expenses with notes and shinplasters, and the expansion of money could not easily be reined in after the war...
- slips of paper became ragged and dirty, and the public came to hate "shinplasters". After the issuance in 1864 of a lighter bronze cent and a two-cent...
- owner, Joshua Cheeseman, was for a few years, a regionally well-known shinplaster banker, producing a number of paper notes used across the region. In...
- Notes of $5 were issued starting in 1912. The last 25¢ notes, known as shinplasters due to their small size, were dated 1923. Special notes called Bank Legals...