The Collaborative International Dictionary
patacoon
Pataca \Pa*ta"ca\, n. [Sp.] The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
patacoon
n. (alternative form of pataca English)
Usage examples of "patacoon".
The honor of the flag was yielded by the Dutch in the most extensive terms: a regulation of trade was agreed to: all possessions were restored to the same condition as before the war: the English planters in Surinam were allowed to remove at pleasure: and the states agreed to pay to the king the sum of eight hundred thousand patacoons, near three hundred thousand pounds.