THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

TERMINOLOGY
Heptarchy (of Edmund of East Anglia none were
known till the Cuerdale find in 1840), Edward the
Confessor, John (Irish coinage), Henry II., Edward I.,
&c, down to the time of the Commonwealth, of which
last regime a small silver barrelful occurred many years
since in mint-state at an auction. A halfpenny is men-
tioned, it appears, in a proclamation of Henry III.,
1257, as if it had then been a current piece, but none
is known of that reign. Two very rare halfpence of
Edward VI., of London and Bristol, occurred at the
Shepherd sale in 1885, Nos. 252, 253. There is a
pattern halfpenny of Elizabeth (Marsham sale, £4