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Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!
2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society:
Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
(UK,colloquial,historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
(attributive,historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
1956, The Spectator, volume 197, page 342:
For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.
Mandarin: 圓/圆(zh)(yuán)(written, formal), 元(zh)(yuán)(written), 塊/块(zh)(kuài)(spoken), 塊錢/块钱(kuài qián)(used as a unit after an amount), 刀(zh)(dāo)(neologism, colloquial)