Refers to a coin made of silver, used historically or in numismatic contexts.
彼は古い銀貨を集めている。
He collects old silver coins.
Merchants in the old days bought goods with silver coins.
His hobby is collecting silver coins from countries around the world.
銀貨 is a silver coin, whereas 銅貨 is a copper coin of lower value, and the two are easy to mix up as parallel metal-coin terms.
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Standard kanji spelling for 'silver coin'.
Compound of 銀 (gin, 'silver') and 貨 (ka, 'coin, currency').