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Guinea

guinea

A gold coin nominally worth twenty-one shillings; Strephon's inability to pay his postilion turns on having only ‘a bad guinea’ — one counterfeit, clipped, or otherwise devalued — to his name.

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Mentioned in 23 works (31 mentions)

Love and Freindship Juvenilia · 1 mention
Scraps Juvenilia · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Rowling, 5 September 1796 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Steventon, 24 December 1798 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Bath, 11 June 1799 letter · 2 mentions
To Cassandra, Bath, 19 June 1799 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Steventon, 14 January 1801 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Bath, 12 May 1801 letter · 1 mention
Northanger Abbey Novels · 4 mentions
To Cassandra, Southampton, 7 January 1807 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Godmersham, 15 June 1808 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Godmersham, 30 June 1808 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Southampton, 1 October 1808 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Southampton, 27 December 1808 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, London, 18 April 1811 letter · 1 mention
Sense and Sensibility Novels · 3 mentions
To Cassandra, London, 24 May 1813 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Godmersham, 6 November 1813 letter · 1 mention
Pride and Prejudice Novels · 1 mention
To Fanny Knight, London, 30 November 1814 letter · 1 mention
Mansfield Park Novels · 3 mentions
Emma Novels · 1 mention
Sanditon (Fragment of a Novel) Fragments · 1 mention