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A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16th to the mid-19th centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)

At all other times they would receive the regular salary of thirty rix-dollars monthly.

A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)

The Dutch monetary system of a rix-dollar or rijksdaalder of 48 stuiver was continued by the British in the early nineteenth century.

rixdollar
The monetary unit of Ceylon until 1828, equal to 48 stivers
rixdollar
{n} a German coin, in value 1 dollar
rixdollar
A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc
rixdollar
See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler
rixdollar
10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope
rixdollar
varying in value from about 30 cents to $1
rix-dollar

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    () From obsolete Dutch rijcksdaler; consider riche, dollar.The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)