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TERMINOLOGY
is a rare rouble of the Czarina Elizabeth (1759) struck
to commemorate the battle fought near Kunnersdorf.
Runic letters—These are not only used by the en-
gravers of the Anglo-Saxon sceattce, but at a later
period by those of some of the Anglo-Saxon pennies
of Mercia (seventh and eighth centuries) and East
Anglia. (See Hawkins, 1887, pp. 37, 55.)
Ryal or rial—A gold piece, first struck in England
under Edward IV., otherwise known as the rose-noble.
But the later pieces so called, as the rose-rial, the spur-
rial, varied, the latter being = 15s., whereas the former
was = 30s. ; and, in fact, the rose-rial and spur-rial of
James's second issue corresponded with the thirty-shilling
and fifteen-shilling pieces of his fifth. In some speci-
mens of the first the background is plain on obverse.
The type of the lion on the second is borrowed from a
kipperthaler of Bavaria, 1621. In 1 Elizabeth the ryal
or rial is explicitly recognised as the moiety of the
pound sovereign or thirty-shilling piece. Henry VII.
struck a piece of four rials or a double sovereign. His
rial or noble is very rare.
Ryal—(i.) A gold coin of Scotland, suggested by the
French royal-oVor, and existing in a pattern struck under
James V. (1514-42) in 1525 (2nd coinage), (ii.) With
the two-thirds and one-third ryal, a silver coin of
Scotland, the largest ever struck for that country,
except the sword-dollar and the sixty-shilling pieces
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