fish scale

See also: fish-scale and fishscale

English

Etymology

From the scales of fish, due to the silver colour and the thinness of the coin.

Noun

fish scale (plural fish scales)

  1. Canadian (slang, idiomatic) for the early 5 cent coins of that nation.

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