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Birachapa

This is another game of heads-and-tails: The dealer twirls or spins a coin with his thumb and forefinger, and, while it is spinning, claps a coconut shell over it. The players bet as many coppers as they please on the head or the tail, laying them upon a wooden tablet with the figure of the head of a coin on the right side and the device representing the tail on the left (figure 66). The dealer pays copper for copper. The coin spun is a cuarto, and is worth five-eighths of a cent. The common copper coin is dos(two) cuartos. The cuartois rarely used in trade, the dos cuartosbeing the lowest current coin.