Zwanziger, [G., f. zwanzig twenty + er, masc. adj. ending.] An Austrian silver coin, equivalent to twenty kreutzers.
1828 R. CRAIG in Mem. viii. (1862) 151 A passenger pays a zwanzig[er] of 17½ sous of France per hour. 1841 BROWNING Pippa Passes II, I possess a burning pocketful of zwanzigers. 1866 HOWELLS Venet. Life xix Lest the fervid imagination of the gondolier rise to zwanzigers and florins.
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