johannes

See also: Johannes and Jóhannes

English

Alternative forms

• joannes

Noun

johannes (plural johanneses)

1. An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.
   • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. lxviii,^[1]

     The current coins of Jamaica are Portugal pieces of gold, called the half johannes, valued at about 55s. currency each […]

Synonyms

• joe

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “johannes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)