simoleons 1881 antedating

[Stephen Goranson]

The archive (Barry) has 1883.

Puck [New York] April 13, 1881; 9, 214; American Periodicals Series pg. 91, col.
2.
WHAT GOETH ON AT PRESENT
....And thereupon he goeth down town, and the Nassau Street auctioneer
scoopeth him in with a three-trade-shekel chromo and a genuine old master for
seven simoleons.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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