Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 74
f this copper coin now known. It was sold inEngland within the past year at auction, and brought $362. The silver coins were a shilling, sixpence, and groat. The groatwas fourpence; the name derived (by error of pronunciationamong the illiterate) from quart (four). The coin was longknown and common… … COLONIAL COINS. gland, some time since, a coin known as the Good Samaritanshilling, closely resembling the Pine-tree shilling, except that inplace of the tree was a group representing the story of theGood Samaritan. This coin was pronounced a forgery by com-mon consent, until quite recently an…
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