THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

VIII
THE COIN MARKET
The most usual and favourite types of money, whether
English or foreign, ancient or modern, which occur
for sale are the Persian daric, the Macedonian stater,
a coin of Alexander the Great, a Roman as, a coin
of Julius Caesar, the German or Low Country thaler
or daalder, the Russian rouble, the French gold ecu,
louis, and 20frames and silver 5-franc piece, the Spanish
piece of eight or piastre and gold doubloon, the
Portuguese silver coroa and gold dobra, the Italian
5-Ure piece, the American dollar of the Northern and
other States, and the English guinea, crown, half-
crown, shilling, and old-fashioned penny and double
penny, and in the earlier series the Anglo-Saxon and
Anglo-Norman silver pennies of St. Edmund, Alfred
the Great, Edward the Confessor, William the Con-
queror, and the Plantagenets. The average mai'ket-
price of such coins may be tabulated as follows :
190
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