What is "stivers"

Usage examples of "stivers".

He succumbed to the tugging of money dreams, a trend of recollections of stivers and dollars and head of cattle and painted shells and promise-tablets.

When he was done he put the shekel in his pocket and felt for change, hesitating as he calculated his delivery cost, eventually depositing four stivers in with the food.

Five marks connection fee if I get him, then two stivers a minute while we’re linked.

I was there for eleven minutes, which makes twenty-two stivers: that’s two and tuppence, brings it to nine marks two.

Eventually the tired prostitute had snapped at him, forgetting herself, telling him what she really thought of the woman who hired out her orifices and let her keep three stivers in every shekel she made.

Police departments consider Stivers "a man of honesty who cooperates in assisting to eliminate crime problems.

Meanwhile Stivers hails friends with telegrams from distant parts: "Just climbed to the summit in a snowstorm.