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44 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
and sixpences of Elizabeth, marked with the arms of Zea-
land, in a Belgian collection would be included with the
money of the Low Countries ; so it seems to me a place
by themselves must be allotted to this class of our twelfth
century money ; nay, perhaps we must allow ourselves to
call it by another name than Stephen's. By whose name ?
We have no ground at all that I know of for assigning
it to the Empress Maude. We have some ground I think
for being not content to consider it the money of Stephen's
rebellious earls. Is there any for supposing it to be
that money of Stephen's successor on the throne, which
was known to his contemporaries as the Duke's money, or
the Duke's coin, and of which it has been imagined and
asserted hitherto that no examples have come down to us ?
Quoting a book, accessible to most people, I take this from
Leake's " Historical Account of English Money," page
49 : "In the month of May, 1149, Henry, the Empress*
son (afterwards King Henry II.) coming into England
with a great company of chosen Men at Arms and others,
many Castles and Strong Holds were delivered, and he
made a nem Coin, mhich was called the Duke's Coin ; and
afterwards (I suppose when he was King) the Duke did
inhibit the most part of these Coins." 3
Turning over a few more pages,
in his account of
Henry II. 's money, Leake says, after referring to the
passage just quoted: "What sort of Money it was we
don't know, but it may probably be one of those pieces
which are doubtfully ascribed to the two first Henrys."
In Ruding we have a similar account ; and at the foot
of page 167, vol. i., a note: "Mr. North says, On this
coin perhaps is
' Dux instead of Rex.' MS. note to
Query, Was Nottingham Castle one of these so delivered ?