quarter eagle

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
QUARTER EAGLE, money. A gold coin of the United States of the value of two 
dollars and a half. 
     2. It weighs sixty-four and one-half grains. Of one thousand parts, 
nine hundred are of pure gold, and one hundred of alloy. Act of January, 18, 
1837, S. 8 and 10, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523, 4. Vide Money. 
    

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