[G., f. zwanzig twenty + -er masc. adj. ending.] An Austrian silver coin, equivalent to twenty kreutzers.
1828. R. Craig, in Mem., viii. (1862), 151. A passenger pays a zwanzig[er] or 171/2 sous of France per hour.
1841. Browning, Pippa Passes, II. I possess a burning pocketfull of zwanzigers.
1866. Howells, Venet. Life, xix. Lest the fervid imagination of the gondolier rise to zwanzigers and forins.
