quarter dollar

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quarter dollar - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  QUARTER DOLLAR, money. A silver coin of the United States of the value of 
  twenty-five cents. 
       2. It weighs one hundred and three and one-eighth grains. Of one 
  thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure silver and one hundred of alloy. 
  Act of January 18, 1837, s. 8 and 9, 4 Sharsw. L. U. S. 2523, 4. Vide Money.