A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century, 1853: Presented to the Corporation Library (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Half-pence in silver, coined by the anglo-saxons in the ninth century, are extant in the cabinets of eminent numismatists. The half-pence struck in the reign of Alfred the Great, before the year 900, were till recently so rare that one in the Dimsdale sale produced nearly 401. But the extraordinary discovery a few years since at Cuerdale, in Lancashire, while it served to dispel many doubts which enshrouded the history of the monetary remains of that interesting period, also enriched the numismatic depositories with many a choice specimen of several most desirable varieties.grains, and the half-pence but ten grains*. Many discoveries of the pennies of Henry the Third show that his coins were frequently cut in halves and quarters, as the representatives of the half-penny and the farthing.

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