THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

TERMINOLOGY
the Reddite crown of the same reign. At a sale in
London a Petition crown in red morocco case, and in
the finest state, was bought by Spink & Son for the
record figure of £500. But several exist.
Crown — A gold coin of Mary I. of Scotland,
1561.
Crown and Standard Gold—These expressions were
used to distinguish the relative purity of the money of
Henry VIII. in this metal of the second issue, the
former being 22 and the latter 23 carats. By the
arrangements made in 1st Elizabeth, the crown gold was
maintained at 22 carats, and the standard gold was
raised to 23 carats 3J grs., and out of a pound of gold
were coined 24 thirty-shilling pieces, 48 rials, 72 angels,
or 144 half-angels.
Crusaders (Empire of the)—There is a half-gros of
Bohemond VII., struck for Tripoli (1274-87) in Sch.
xxvi. 778 ; but the piece was poorly preserved. Lord
Grantley recently purchased of a dealer at Athens
about 6000 coins belonging to this series, and speaks
of arranging and tabulating them.
Cunnetti—The word found on a plentiful series of
silver pennies of the ninth and tenth centuries, with
many variations in the type, of which the place of
origin is still undetermined. (See Hawkins, 1887,
p. 81-84.)
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