Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, Band 4

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Royal Numismatic Society., 1812
Proceedings of the Society are included in each volume, beginning with v. 5 (except v. 10, 19, and new ser., v. 4)
 

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Seite 52 - Irlandes d'argent, to pass for the value of one penny sterling ; the other of vij. ob of troy weight, having imprinted on one part of it a crown, and on the other part a cross, called a Patrick, of which eight shall pass for one denier. That a gross be made of the weight of three deniers sterling...
Seite 234 - ... Accordingly a considerable part of the gold was sent into that country, and the remainder being reserved by James for a dead lift, the copper money was resolved upon, and the mint set to work in the August of the second year. " On its first appearance abroad, the Protestants in Leinster shewed a reluctancy to receive it ; but they were soon forced into a compliance. Elsewhere it passed pretty well in the beginning ; the people, who were hitherto scant of money, being glad to have any coin current...
Seite 79 - Denn ex cedro oleum, quod cedrium dicitur nascitur, quo reliquae res cum sunt unctae uti etiam libri a tineis et a carie non laeduntur Vitruo. II 9, 13 und ebenso ex cupressino autem llgno confici solebant саpаи tue, in quibus reponebantur scripta poetarum contra tineas schol.
Seite 93 - Tum pater omnipotens fecundis imbribus aether Conjugis in gremium laetae descendit , et omnes Magnus alit, magno commixtus corpore, fetus.
Seite 230 - In the name of God was coined this dinar in the year one hundred and fifty seven." In the centre is, " Mahommed is the Apostle of God" in three lines, between which are the words, OFFA REX.
Seite 235 - ... owners must stay until their ship was loaded again with the country provisions or commodities, which were to be plundered from the natives. This unhappy management made all neighbouring nations shun that part of Ireland, which was reputed an infamous den of robbers and a receptacle of pyrates. It was the common opinion, that this pitiful project of the copper coin was purposely advised by some, who designed the total ruin of Ireland ; for it might easily be foreseen, that it .would quickly destroy...
Seite 115 - Y quaking, the temple of Diana would be swallowed, like a ship in a storm, into the abyss : and Ephesus lamenting and weeping by the river banks, would inquire for it, then inhabited no more.
Seite 234 - ... talents), nevertheless the Pamphilian (Scottish) advice prevailed. Accordingly a considerable part of the gold was sent into that country, and the remainder being reserved by Amasis (James) for a dead lift, the copper money was resolved upon, and the mint set to work in the sixth month (August OS) of the second year (1689).
Seite 234 - Coridonians (Tyrconnellites) was most insufferable. A factor who had his goods ready to be shipped on board a vessel hired for that purpose must have the affliction to behold his warehouse broke open, and all the intended freight, which he acquired with so great pains and expense, snatched from him in a moment ; for which he had the value given him in copper according to the king's rate (or perhaps a ticket for it), which would not yield him the price...
Seite 50 - Quadrant, be struck for the time to come within the castle of Dublin only, and in no other place within the four counties of Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Uriel, and in no other place in Ireland...

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