THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

TERMINOLOGY
British mints—Canterbury, Cirencester, Colchester,
London, Richborough, Silchester, Verulam, and, of
course, many others not identified.
Broad, tenth the half-—The name given to the twenty-
shilling piece in gold of the Protector Cromwell, and of
the first and second issues of Charles II., 1660-61.
Broad pieces—The old widespread gold money of
England, as distinguished from the more modern fabric.
Brunswick—Henry the Lion, Duke of Brunswick,
who married as his second wife Matilda, daughter of
Henry II. of England, and reigned from 1139 to 1195,
struck deniers of a bracteate fabric, of which one, found
at Brunswick in 1756, exhibits a lion passing under an
archway. From the above-named union the present
roval family of Great Britain is descended. On a
denier of Otto V., Duke of Bavaria (1180-83), Henry
of Brunswick appears standing and in armour, attended
by a lion.
Carpentum—A covered carriage, used at Rome under
the republic only by privileged persons, and even later
reserved for ladies of high rank and for religious
observances. It occurs on first brass coins of Agrippina,
&c. The Roman carpentum was borrowed from the
still ruder Babylonian vehicle, also delineated on coins.
Causia—A felt broad-brimmed hat, seen on the coins
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