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The coins had no inscriptions, but went with the natives by the name of "dacolds" the native word for "big," The Americans renamed the dacolds "claquers," and used either name at pleasure. It required eighty dacolds to equal one peso, forty to a half-peso, sixteen to a peseta, eight to a media-peseta.
This morning I asked my maid, an elderly woman, if she remembered the old money we had four years ago. She struck her forehead with her hand, and thought a long time. Finally her face lit up. She said that the Tagalogs called the dacolds "Christinas" after the mother of the Queen-mother.
So I counted her out fifty new coppers and we both rejoiced in our bargain. I told her that the media-peseta was worth ten dacolds, but she wanted the bright new money. For the next two hours I was persecuted with truck-sellers.
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