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Galley halfpence, .supra. The foreign merchants had
their residence or settlement in Mincheon or Mincing
Lane. But the Galley-men were billeted in a quadrant
called Galley Row, between Hart Lane and Church
Lane. Suskvn may be a corruption of zeshm. (Comp.
Dud and DodJcin, supra.)
Sword-and-sceptre piece, with the half-—A gold coin
of James VI. of Scotland, so called from those two
emblems on the obverse, 1001-4. The issues of 1603-4
are rare, especially the latter.
Symbol—A mark or object significant of an attribute
or of the possessor of one, as the fulmen of Zeus, the
club of Herakles, the trident of Poseidon, &c. Some of
these are of evident import, while others are more or
less recondite and subject to hypothetical solutions.
It seems probable that the commonly accepted and
favourite theory imputing the portraiture on Greek
money will undergo modification, as many of the heads
are clearly realistic. We also meet with instances
where a mark, such as a wheel or some other object,
occurs to denote value, like the rose on the Elizabethan
sixpence; the ear of corn, the bunch of grapes, the
cornucopia, the Pegasos, the free horse, the horse with
a loose rein, the man-headed bull, the crab, the eagle,
the torch, the double flute.
T. b. c.j trcs-bien conserve—An expression very often
found in foreign numismatic tic ccatalogues
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