Coins, English - Early works to 1800

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Remarks on some conjectures, relative to an antient piece of money endeavouring to prove it a coin of Richard, the First King of England of that name . Shewing the improbability of the notion therein advanced; that the arguments produced in support of it are inconclusive, or irrelative to the point in question. In which will be particularly and largely consider'd the standard and purity of our most antient English coins, the state of the mints, and the beginning or sterling, from the public records. To which will be added, an epistorlary dissertion on some supposed saxon gold coins read before the society of antiquaries: By Geo. North, A.M. Fellow of the society of antiquaries, London.
North, George, 1710-1772.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]
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A letteer [sic] to the people of Ireland, relating to the copper half-pence, coining in Dublin . Shewing, that this nation will gain a hundred thousand pounds sterl. Cash by the same. Twenty thousand pounds thereof is now a manufacturing.
Maculla, JamesDate: 1729
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Chronicon preciosum, or, An account of English money, the price of corn, and other commodities for the last 600 years : in a letter to a student in the University of Oxford.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: 1707
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The episcopal coins of Durham, and the monastic coins of Reading, minted during the reigns of Edward I. II. and III. ... By Benjamin Bartlet, F.A.S. ----- 1778. (From the 5. volume of Archaelogia ...)
Bartlet, Benjamin, 1714-1787.Date: 1778?]
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An Act for making perpetual an Act for the better preventing the counterfeiting the current coin of this kingdom , as also an Act for giving like remedy upon promisory notes as is used upon bills of exchange, and for the better payment of inland bills of exchange; and also for continuing several Acts made in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesties reign for preventing frauds committed by bankrupts.
Great BritainDate: 1709]