Sentences with phrase «small brass coins»
Santa Cruz Island even had its own money — small brass coins called «fischas,» which Caire used to pay sheep shearers.
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The coins, which were stamped from sheets of brass and engraved with the island logo — a cross on a hill and SCIC, the abbreviation for the Santa Cruz Island Co. — came in two sizes: dime - sized for docile or smaller sheep and quarter - sized for larger, unruly sheep.