A fifty dollar gold piece.
1853. The “slugs” have completely annihilated the small gold in this vicinity, and silver is entirely out of the question,—more scarce than “slugs.”—Olympia (W.T.) Courier, Jan. 1.
1853. We hope our farmers and stockraisers will have their eyes open, and their “slugs” ready, to enter into a successful competition with the speculators of California.—Id., July 16.
1857. You ’ll find it here—cash or check—slugs, rags, or dollars—according to order.—Knick. Mag., xlix. 35 (Jan.).
1858. It is immaterial what the idol is, whether it is what the Californians call a slug, or whether it is a twenty-dollar gold piece.—Brigham Young, Feb. 7: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ vi. 195.
1862. Many a not unseemly octagonal slug, with Moffatt & Co.’s imprimatur of value, had been offered me if I would paint up some miner’s hell as “The True Paradise,” or “The Shades and Caffy de Paris.”—Theodore Winthrop, ‘John Brent,’ p. 37 (N.Y., 1876).
