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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 1579
...trans. To acknowledge the receipt of and agree to pay (a bill of exchange or a draft). Formerly 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 1728
...In pl. Ornaments placed around the figure of Juno as conventionally represented on a medal, coin, etc. Cf. attribute3. Obs.rare....
7. † Albert, n.1 View full entry 1740
...A gold coin formerly current in Flanders and the Netherlands. rare....
8. Albert dollar in † Albert, n.1 View full entry 1765
...a large silver coin originally issued for the Spanish Netherlands in 1612 under the joint rule of Archduke Albert VII and his wife, and widely used in international trade and...
9. ambrosin, n. View full entry 1753
10. angel, n. View full entry 1488
...An old English gold coin, called more fully at first the angel-noble, being originally a new issue of the Noble, having as its device the archangel Michael standing upon, and...
11. angel-piece in angel, n. View full entry 1688
...= 6....
12. angelet, n. View full entry 1481-90
...A gold coin, half the value of the angel. Obs....
13. 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 ...
14. 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....
15. 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....
16. anna, n.1 View full entry 1727
...An East Indian denomination of money; the 16th part of a rupee....
17. archetype, n. View full entry
...in Minting. A coin of standard weight, by which others are adjusted. ? Obs....
18. argent, n. and adj. View full entry c1500
...Silver coin; hence gen. money, cash. Obs....
19. 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...
20. 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’....
