The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain and Her Dependencies, from the Earliest Period to the Present TimeNathaniel Cooke, 1854 - 160 pagina's |
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The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage ... Henry Noel Humphreys Volledige weergave - 1854 |
The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage ... Henry Noel Humphreys Volledige weergave - 1855 |
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adopted Æthelstan afterwards ancient angles appears arms attributed bearing billon brass Britain Britannia bust Cæsar Carausius character Charles Charles II circulation Civitas coins struck copper copper coinage copper farthings cross crown device earliest Edward Edward III emperor England English coinage engraved Ethelred executed France George George III gold coinage gold coins Greek groats guineas half-crowns half-groats half-sovereigns halfpence halfpenny Henry VIII inscription Ireland Irish coinage issued James James VI king king's head legend letters lion Mary maundy money mint-mark mints moneyer's name motto noble numerals obverse obverse and reverse ornament ounces pattern period Philip place of mintage Plate 18 Plate 23 Plate 9 portrait pound weight previous reigns prince reverse rial ring-money ROSA rose royal rude rupee Saxon Scotland Scottish shield siege piece silver coins silver penny similar skeattæ sovereigns specimen stycas style supposed Tasciovanus testoon throne tokens twenty-shilling piece William
Populaire passages
Pagina 14 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Pagina 130 - By this means, medals that are, at present, only a dead treasure, or mere curiosities, will be of use in the ordinary commerce of life, and, at the same time, perpetuate the glories of her Majesty's reign, reward the labours of her greatest subjects, keep alive in the people a gratitude for public services, and excite the emulation of posterity.
Pagina 10 - There is one class, too, the most numerous and important of all, which must have been designed and executed under the sanction of public authority; and therefore, whatever meaning they contain, must have been the meaning of nations, and not the caprice of individuals. This is the class of coins, the devices upon which were always held so strictly sacred, that the most proud and powerful monarchs never ventured to put their portraits upon them, until the practice of deifying sovereigns had enrolled...
Pagina 115 - Thomas Simon most humbly prays your Majesty to compare this his tryal piece with the Dutch, and if more truly drawn and embossed, more gracefully -ordered, and more accurately engraven, to relieve him...
Pagina 126 - A tax was therefore laid upon dwelling-houses, to raise the sum of 1,200,OOOZ., to supply the deficiency of the clipped money ; and in order that there might be as little delay as possible in carrying a complete new coinage into effect, mints were established at York, Bristol, Norwich, Exeter, and Chester, the coins of each mint being respectively marked with the initial letter of the name of the place.
Pagina 82 - Argentum tuum versum est in scoriam. " Thy silver is turned into," what ? into testions * ? Scoriam :
Pagina 65 - Edward claimed sovereignty of the seas in 1359, fifteen years subsequent to the issue of these coins, and yet the old poet sings :* — But king Edward made a siege royall, And wonne the town, and in special! The sea was kept, and thereof he was lord ; Thus made he nobles coins of record.
Pagina 14 - ... be made into a chain, from which portions could be detached at pleasure. It seems probable that the individual loops were not adjusted to a particular weight, but that each bundle of loops amounted in the aggregate to a particular weight.
Pagina 12 - In Genesis (xxiii. 16) Abraham is represented as weighing out to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant...
Pagina 78 - Also the said lord cardinal, of his further pompous and presumptuous mind, hath enterprised to join and imprint the cardinal's hat under your arms in your coin of groats made at your city of York, which like deed hath not been seen to be done by any subject within your realm before this time.