rix-dollar

noun2

1. •
   (historical) 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.

   • At all other times they would receive the regular salary of thirty rix-dollars monthly. — 1803
2. •
   (historical) A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.

   • The Dutch monetary system of a rix-dollar or rijksdaalder of 48 stuiver was continued [in Cape Province] by the British in the early nineteenth century. — 1962