half joe

== English == === Noun === half joe (plural half joes) (chiefly Canada, US, now historical) A Portuguese gold coin, worth 3,200 reis, formerly current in North America. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 59: [M]y father's draft […] was paid in the Portuguese coin of half-Joes, or six-and-thirty shilling pieces, at that time made current in Great Britain.