[wideawake]

Good point about the Spanish silver.

However, just because the Hanoverians weren't minting it doesn't mean that the half-crown was out of circulation.

Coins last a good long while, including half-crowns.

[Soliton]

Please provide some evidence that colonial Americans of GW’s time used halfcrowns as dollars.

A George II halfcrown (those in circulation when GW was young) had .274 ounces of silver.

The first silver dollar had .875 ounces of silver. (Similar to the Spanish reales)

It is impossible that they were used interchangeably.

Will you please admit you were wrong?