half joe

Noun

 * 1)  A Portuguese gold coin, worth 3,200 reis, formerly current in North America.
 * 2) * 1808–10,, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 59:
 * [M]y father's draft was paid in the Portuguese coin of half-Joes, or six-and-thirty shilling pieces, at that time made current in Great Britain.