3. (common).—A sovereign.—See Chips, sense 5.

1883. Miss Braddon, Phantom Fortune, ch. xli. Where sheafs of bank

notes were being exchanged for those various coloured counters

which represented divers values, from the respectable ‘pony’ to the

modest chip

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