"half bull" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 60:",
          "text": "\"And would you believe it,\" he added, with a sudden change of attitude, \"I've done fifty-two of those Dam' little tracts, and what d'you reckon I get for them? Half a crown apiece - a miserable half bull,\" he said, thrusting the insignificance of that sum upon the curate's attention with the stem of his pipe.",
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        "A coin worth half a crown (two shilling and sixpence; 2s 6d)."
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        "(slang, obsolete) A coin worth half a crown (two shilling and sixpence; 2s 6d)."
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  "word": "half bull"
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          "text": "\"And would you believe it,\" he added, with a sudden change of attitude, \"I've done fifty-two of those Dam' little tracts, and what d'you reckon I get for them? Half a crown apiece - a miserable half bull,\" he said, thrusting the insignificance of that sum upon the curate's attention with the stem of his pipe.",
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