Illustrated encyclopaedia of gold and silver coins of the world; illustrating the modern, ancient, current and curious, from A.D. 1885 back to B.C. 700 (1886)
Smith, Andrew Madsen, 1841-1915 · Philadelphia : A. M. Smith · leaf 272
lections Avere found in Ireland, it isprobable that the use of ring-money was much more common in that country thanin Britain, and its similarity to actual coinage is rendered more striking from itscareful adjustment to special weight. There are small rings of exactly one-halfl)eimyweight and so on… … ;^ 266 GREAT BRITAIN. The second plate illustrates different varieties of the ring;-money. gold, of Ire-land. The earliest were little more than i)ieces of wire bent ronnd, and plain attirst, the ends were later flattened or shaped into varions forms, with rude attemptsat ornamentation, the…
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