The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

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Royal Numismatic Society., 1926
Proceedings of the Society are included in each volume, beginning with v. 5 (except v. 10, 19, and new ser., v. 4)

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Página 355 - The lad wasted half his tar-flambeau in looking for me ; but I escaped his search, being lodged snugly against a post. This morning a parish girl picked me up, and carried me with raptures to the next baker's shop to purchase a roll. The master, who was churchwarden, examined me with great attention, and then gruffly threatening her with Bridewell for putting off bad money, knocked a nail through my middle, and fastened me to the counter : but the moment the poor hungry child was gone, he whipt me...
Página 344 - ... our smallest current silver coin. The use of copper coins should be strictly confined within the above limit; and therein they are very convenient. But these base coins should never be thrust upon the public in too great abundance; or be made to pass for more than the value of the copper, and the necessary expense of workmanship ; otherwise, they will be counterfeited, notwithstanding any laws to the contrary.
Página 355 - ... and though I seem to bear the venerable marks of old age, I received my being at Birmingham not six months ago. From thence I was transported, with many of my brethren of different dates, characters, and configurations, to a Jew-pedlar in Duke's place, who paid for us in specie scarce a fifth part of our nominal and extrinsic value. We were soon after separately disposed of, at a more moderate profit, to coffee-houses, chop-houses, chandler-shops and gin-shops.
Página 354 - ... erected itself upon its rim, and from the royal lips stamped on its surface articulately uttered the following narration : 'Sir! I shall not pretend to conceal from you the illegitimacy of my birth, or the baseness of my extraction ; and though I seem to bear the venerable marks of old age, I received my being at Birmingham not six months ago. From thence I was transported, with many of my brethren of different dates, characters, and configurations to a...
Página 115 - Charter received the title of The Royal Numismatic Society. Its meetings, at which papers are read and rare coins or medals are exhibited, are held on the third Thursday of each month from October to June, at No.
Página 353 - Metropolis,' remarked a magistrate, 'which does not carry boxes and parcels of base coin to the camps, seaports and manufacturing towns' (the places where demand for coin was highest).
Página 344 - ... base coins. 39. Although silver, bulk for bulk, is now about 26 times cheaper than gold; yet silver is too dear to be coined into specie of the lowest denominations of our money. A silver penny is too small for common use; and yet pence, and their halfs, and quarters, enter daily into accounts. To supply the want of very small silver coins, a kind of TOKENS or substitutes have been instituted; these, are now with us, all made of copper, and of two species only, called half-pence, and farthings;...
Página 57 - Economic activity, industry, and trade, deprived of the security of the first and second centuries, had declined at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries...
Página 275 - These are listed with the numbers and in the order given in H. Mattingly's article " The Restored Coins of Trajan " in the Numismatic Chronicle 1926 ; where he says " To sum up: the main object of the restoration of Republican denarii seems to have been to revive the glorious memories of the old days...
Página 63 - Egypt in the fifth century," oc vi (1926), 43-^2. The last article contains (pp. 61-4) a discussion of how these tiny coins were used, with a striking modern parallel from the Saharan oases. His conclusion is that ' the simplest plan for dealing with the problem of small change was to use anything that could easily be counted over for purposes of reckoning without requiring it to possess any definite value in itself...

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