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TERMINOLOGY
Of the imitations in the Netherlands the divisions are
scarcer than the whole. But there is a rare one struck
in 1582 for Gueldres, after the first Spanish abandon-
ment of the country, with the legend Devs .
Et . Constitvit . Regna.
Transfert
In the Report of the Parish of St. James's, West-
minster, for 1882, p. 72, is a reference to the noble as.
a current piece as late as 1687. This, of course, may
have been the Thistle noble of James I.
Occasion may be taken to observe that the original
English noble was the piece which appears to have
assisted in laying the foundation of the more modern
style of gold currency in Europe, and in supplanting
the classical and Merovingian models ; but the honour
of priority is due to France. (Comp. Campen.)
Nomes—The territorial divisions of ancient Egypt, of
which we meet with the names on a series of bronze
coins, accompanied by representations of the deities
worshipped in the respective localities. (See Head,
Historia Nurnorum, p. 722.)
Nomine Domini — Comp. Dei Gratia — A silver
groat of Jan, Seigneur of Cuinre (1297-1360), reads,
Moneta Cunre In Nomine Domini. The Domini No-
mine was borrowed by the Ostrogoths from the later
imperial Roman currency, as we see it on the third
brass of Martinianus. Some of the Nummus series are
engraved by Mr. Hodgkin in his volume on Theodoric
the Goth, 1891.
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