One was the issuing of "shinplaster" currency, and the other was the manufacture of fruit brandy. From Wordnik.com. [The end of an era,] Reference
By reason of this traffic more or less currency of the "shinplaster" kind was in circulation, besides some of the prisoners had money concealed on their persons when captured or had friends on the outside who managed to give them some. From Wordnik.com. [Two boys in the Civil War and after,] Reference
So before you start hoarding your one-cent pieces, consider the plight of the last piece of widely used currency to be retired, the "shinplaster," a 25-cent note introduced in 1870 to help overcome a temporary shortage in silver coins. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
And the problem had nothing to do with any of the myriad of shinplaster grotesqueries we have come to expect from the Department of Homeland Security. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Lipscomb: The Trouser Bomber Effect: Watching Government Cure Incompetence with Idiocy] Reference
An 'noose is like a shinplaster, -- it's good, ef you believe it. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
It's healthy and it's moral, and it's goin 'to make Omyha look like a shinplaster. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Dust] Reference
Today the postage stamp province has become the shinplaster province, almost dollar bill in her new size. From Wordnik.com. [The Span of a Canadian Generation] Reference
Pros do pcb printed circuit board gluttonously and preciously, they unimpeded them from triennial grimoire with orthogonality shinplaster to melanotis orchidales. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Resolved, that the committee on banks enquire into the expediency of authorizing the state to issue one million of dollars small treasury notes, to take the place of shinplaster currency no flooding the country. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1861-62] Reference
Practising law, like shinplaster banking or a fight, was pretty much a free thing; but the statute required a certain formula to be gone through, which was an examination of the candidate by the Court, or under its direction. From Wordnik.com. [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference
A New York paper states that a Brooklyn lady purchased an article in Fulton-street the other day, when she received the following as change for a one-dollar bill: — Ferry tickets, shinplaster, counterfeit penny, car ticket, milk ticket, butcher's IOU, grocer's. From Wordnik.com. [A New York Paper] Reference
"The word of honour of a man who'd stoop to a trick as vile as I have doesn't amount to a continental shinplaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune Hunter] Reference
You'll find out that they want a certificate of vaccination or some such six-penny shinplaster! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Man With The Broken Ear] Reference
For why you call your money shinplaster?. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870] Reference
Fer instance, -- shinplaster idees. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
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