Annals of the Coinage of Britain and Its Dependencies: From the Earliest Period of Authentick History to the End of the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George III, Том 1Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819 |
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Accounts AELFSIGE Aethelweard Anglo-Saxon Anno EDWARD antient Antiquaries appears Archæologia Assay Master Assayer Britain British Bullion Cæsar Calais Campsor Carat Charles Charter Claus Clerk Coinage Comptroller Connexion counterfeit Cuneorum Custos Cambii discovered Domesday Book dors Edward III Edward the Confessor Elizabeth England English Engraver Exchequer Farthing folio George GEORGE III Gold and Silver Gold Coins Halfpenny Harl Henry III Henry VIII Hist Indenture James John King King's Kingdom Laws London and Canterbury Lord Madox metal Michaelmas Mint Accounts Mints Monarch Monete Money Moneyer's name Moneyers Monies Obverse Officers Ounce Parliament Pence Pennies Plates Pollett's Pound weight probably reign Reverse Richard Richard II Rolls of Parliament Roman Rymer Saxon Sceatta Seignorage Shillings Silver Coins Snelling Snelling's MS List Standard Statute Thomas tion Tower Tower of London Trial Warden Wilkins William
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Сторінка 13 - Moneye, is som of gretter Prys, and som of lasse prys, aftre the dyversitee of his Statutes. And whan that Money hathe ronne so longe, that it begynnethe to waste, than men beren it to the Emperoures Tresorye: and than thei taken newe Money for the olde.
Сторінка 130 - Ecghberht, king of Kent, which is the second in point of antiquity in the Anglo-Saxon series, and must be dated about the middle of the seventh century. It was usually stamped upon the reverse of the coin, but in some few instances it is found upon the obverse, whilst the name of the monarch is removed to the other side.
Сторінка 206 - People ; and if a Man slay the Chancellor, Treasurer, or the King's Justices of the one Bench or the other, Justices in Eyre, or Justices of...
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Сторінка 32 - ... it ; for in the laws of Canute it is provided, that if any person accused of false coinage should plead that he did it by licence from the reeve, that officer should clear himself by the triple ordeal. If he failed to do this, he was to suffer the same punishment as the falsifier himself, which, in the same chapter of the law, is said to be the loss of that hand by which the crime was committed, without any redemption either by gold or silver.
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