"junk dollar" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: junk dollars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} junk dollar (plural junk dollars)
  1. (numismatics, historical) A silver dollar of the Republic of China, bearing the head of Sun Yat Sen on the obverse and a two-masted sailing junk on the reverse, first issued in 1934. Tags: historical Translations (Translations): 船洋 (chuányáng) (Chinese Mandarin), 孫大頭 /孙大头 (sūndàtóu) (Chinese Mandarin), 船洋 (⁶zoe-yan) (Wu Chinese)

Inflected forms

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