A guide to the Department of coins and medals in the British museum (1922)
British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : The Trustees · leaf 53
t of engraver to the mint. The coinage of Eoettier has thedistinction that it was struck by the mill or screw ; the processof striking by the hammer was at this time abandoned. During and after the reign of Charles II, the English coinagedeclines in interest and variety, and from that time down to… … Pig. 32. Unite of tlie Commomvealtli. a. d. 1600. were the five and two guineas and half-guinea, and to these weresubsequently added the quarter-guinea (in 1718) and the one-thirdguinea (in 1801). The silver coins were the five shillings, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, fourpence, threepence,…
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