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THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

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<strong>THE</strong> <strong>COLLECTOR</strong> SERIES<br />

Great collections of every class have always owed<br />

their extent to the presence of thousands of virtual<br />

duplicates in the shape of variants ; and it must be so<br />

when it is recollected that the denominations issued<br />

in Great Britain, even reckoning different pieces<br />

similarly named from the time of the British period<br />

to Victoria, do not exceed seventy. It follows that<br />

about 1530 items really represent all that one can<br />

have of the numismatic products of Britain from the<br />

earliest period to the present.<br />

Denominations.<br />

British Series<br />

Stater, third stater and half stater, and say six<br />

other weights in different metals ... 9<br />

...... Anglo-Saxon<br />

Penny and halfpenny 2<br />

Anglo-Norman<br />

Add the farthing....... 1<br />

Plantagenets<br />

Add florin, half and quarter noble, half and<br />

quarter angel, half and quarter ryal and<br />

double ryal, groat and half groat . . . 13<br />

Tudors<br />

Add sovereign, double sovereign and triple sovereign,<br />

half-sovereign, crown and half-crown,<br />

crown and half-crown, shilling, six-<br />

in gold ;<br />

pence, threepence, three halfpence, and three<br />

farthings in silver, penny in copper . . 14<br />

Stuarts<br />

Add Laurel and half, Unit, Britain crown, Thistle<br />

crown, Rose rial, Spur rial, 30s. -piece, 15s.-<br />

piece, guinea, half and quarter, two and five<br />

guineas, in gold<br />

......<br />

; the 20s. and 10s. Oxford<br />

pieces in silver ; the halfpenny in copper and<br />

Maundy money 21<br />

Commonwealth and Protectorate<br />

Add broad and half and 50s. in gold<br />

Hanoverian<br />

... 3<br />

Add two and five pounds and 7s. pieces in gold,<br />

florin and double florin in silver, and penny<br />

and twopence in copper 7<br />

208<br />

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