THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

TERMINOLOGY
Gilt—A term applied to coins of inferior metals
washed with gold. Fr. dorL
Greek engravers {Ancient)—See Head's Hist. Num.,
p. 100, and (List of Engravers 1
Names) p. 785.
Groat—A silver English coin = four pennies in the
same metal, first struck under Edward III. with the
half-groat. But there is a pattern groat which has been
conjectural ly assigned to Edward I., but which more
probably belongs to the close of the following reign.
Under Edward IV. we meet with heavy groats and light
groats, of 60 and 48 grains respectively. The old type
determined under Henry VIII. Its successor was the
fourpence, of more modern fabric, struck by Edward
VI. and (with modifications) down to 1856. Of the
half-groat of the Commonwealth there are at least
two types. The design for the reverse of that of 1836
was taken from the thirty-lepta piece engraved by W.
Wyon for the Ionian Isles (1819).
Groat, with the half and the third—A silver deno-
mination of Scotland, of which the two former first
appeared in 1358 under David II. The third seems
to be confined to the third coinage of James V.
(1527).
Gros tournois—First instituted in France under Louis
IX. about 1248, and imitated in every part of Europe.
Louis X. (1314-16) did not strike this coin, those hitherto
ascribed to him belonging to Louis IX. Of Charles VI.
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