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Yellow Geordie

A colloquial name in Scotland for a Guinea. See White Geor- die.

Robert Burns, in his poem The Twa Dogs (lines 55-58), says : " He ca's his coach : he ca's his horse ; He draws a bonnie silken purse. As lang's my tail, whare. thro' the steeks. The yellow letter'd Geordie keeks."


Source: Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)
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