THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

TERMINOLOGY
Anglo-American money—The currency struck for the
American dependencies and settlements from the time
of Elizabeth (if we include the portcullis series of 1600-
1601) till the declaration of independence in 1776.
The series embraces the Sommers Islands, the Massa-
chusetts, the Maryland, the Virginian, the Connecticut,
and New York coins and tokens, and those of Canada.
Anglo-Gallic money—The series of coins struck in
France by the English rulers of portions of that country
from Henry II., in right of his wife, Eleonore d'Aqui-
taine, to Henry VIII., including those of the Regent
Bedford. It is still a doubtful question whether King
John struck money for Poitou. The latest Anglo-
Gallic coins are the Tournay groats of Henry VIII.
(See Akerman's "Numismatic Manual, 11
392.)
1840, pp. 367-
Anglo-Indian money—The currency struck for Bom-
bay, Madras, &c, by English sovereigns from Charles II.
to Victoria.
Arc or lobe—The division of a tressure or epicycloid,
which is a common form of enclosure for the type on
early English and foreign coins; the number of arcs
varies.
A rchon—The chief magistrate of a city, whose name
appeal's on Greek coins struck during his term of office.
Ark of Noah is delineated literally as a chest with
two inmates on the reverse of a coin of Apameia, in
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