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1. abbasi, n. View full entry 1615
...A Persian silver coin (originally weighing approx. 9.33 grams) equivalent in value to two mahmudi (mahmudia) or 200 dinars, first issued by the Safavid Shah Abbas I (reigned ...
2. † about-writing, n. View full entry c1449
...An inscription or legend around the head on the face of a coin....
3. accept, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. (formerly (17th–18th centuries) also †intr. with of (obs.))....
4. accolated, adj. View full entry 1875
...= accolled3....
5. acker, n.2 View full entry 1937
...A piastre. hist. in later use....
6. adminicle, n. View full entry 1551
...Something which provides help or assistance, esp. in a subordinate or supporting capacity; an aid, an accessory; an adjunct. Freq. with to. Now rare....
7. † Albert, n.1 View full entry 1740
...A gold coin formerly current in Flanders and the Netherlands. rare....
8. ambrosin, n. View full entry 1753
9. angel, n. View full entry c950
...A ministering spirit or divine messenger; one of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power and intelligence, who, according to the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other theologies, are the...
10. angelet, n. View full entry 1481-90
...A gold coin, half the value of the angel. Obs....
11. angel-noble, n. View full entry 1474
...The fuller name of the gold coin angel (see angel6); it being really the representative in value (6s. 8d.) of the earlier ...
12. angelot, n. View full entry 1525
...A French gold coin struck by Louis XI, bearing the image of St. Michael with the dragon under his feet; also a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI....
13. Anglo-Gallic, adj. View full entry 1751
...Numismatics. Designating coinage issued by English monarchs in English-controlled territories in France from the 13th to the 16th centuries....
14. anna, n.1 View full entry 1727
...An East Indian denomination of money; the 16th part of a rupee....
15. archetype, n. View full entry 1605
...The original pattern or model from which copies are made; a prototype....
16. argent, n. and adj. View full entry c1500
...The metal silver. arch. or poet.spume of argent (Latin argenti spuma): litharge of silver....
17. as, n.1 View full entry 1541
...A Roman copper coin, originally weighing twelve ounces, but reduced after the first Punic war to two ounces, during the second Punic war to one, and by the Lex Papiria...
18. asper, n.2 View full entry 1587
...A small silver Turkish coin, of which 120 were reckoned equal to the piastre; in later use only a ‘money of account’....
19. ˈassary, n. View full entry 1727
...A Roman copper coin, translated by ‘farthing’ in Matt. x. 29. (Commonly used in Latin or Greek form.)...
20. aˈssay-ˌmaster, n. View full entry 1647
...The master of an assay-house; an officer appointed to assay coin, gold and silver plate, etc....
