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quality difficult to express in words dignity, distinction, refinement, nobility that renders them not unworthy of our nation

and many of us receive remunera- tion in guineas, more pleasing than pounds and shillings.

for five

The pedants remind us Shylock's Bronze for Copper:

ducats were equivalent merely to Of course, there will always be three shillings and sixpence, but criticism of any coins of any the word summons up visions of human mint, and impracticable de vast wealth. The Indian Currency manda will be made. For example, Commission advocates that gold Anthony Clyne writes in the in 1860 occurred a great revolution mohurs be coined again. The very "Weekly Scotmoan":

"Bonale siller's soon spendit," in the lowest coins, bronze being name invokes the gorgeous East runs the Scottish proverb. It is substituted for copper and the and its hoards of treasure.

First of the Silver Coins. an unconscionable time a-minting weight reduced by one-half, forty-

twenty-four The first of our silver coins was eight instead of At length a Royal Proclamation, coming into force on December 1 pennies going to the pound. This the silver penny Issued by Offa, next, announces a now sliver coin- "uncrowned Queen Victoria stamp-King of Mercis, twelve hundred age. It is five years since dissatis age," as it was called in the official years ago. The silver penny alone faction with post-war mintages cul- notice some five years ago of its was minted and in usa

withdrawal from circulation, had minated in the vigorous protest of immeasurable advantages over its Sir Charles Oman' in the Commons,

predecessors. The design was evoking the candid confession of

graceful and dignifled, the colour tho Chancellor that they were "faulty, bad in colour, and not well pleasing, the resistance to wear and struck," the avowed reason being tear evidenced by the number of that the Mint had not "mastered generations during which the coins remained in circulation. The the rather difficult alloy." The all-

of convenient weight ver coins issued for some years.be-penny was

and size, easily distinguishable Ifore that time had been of inferior

portable, and by these virtues sub- stantially contributed to its estab lishment as the minimum price for many popular commodities. W But the censorious, the hypercri- ticui were not lacking to express their detestation

design and of a paltry fragility dia- honouring the State whose symbols they bure. There have since been some improvements, but without such fulfilment of the demands of art, utility, and prestige as we are entitled to expect.

Mirrors of History. Coins mirror history, fragmen- tarily but not infrequently, with flashes that bring the student close to reality. The strength and energy of Alexander, the philoso- phic calmness of Antoninus, the ob- stinate ferocity of Nero are as plain in the contemporary portraits on their coins as in the pages of his tory. The story of the Byzantine solidus or bezant in the story of

hundred years before decadence set in, diminishing and debasing it. The monarch who introduced the gold noble and gold florin also in- Sliver troduced the silver groat. pennies were last minted for gen- eral circulation in the days of the Merrie Monarch. Historic continu Ity has been maintained right up to the present time by the annual appearance of the Maundy moneys, minted specially to be bestowed as aims from the King at Westmins ter Abboy on Maundy Thursday, The new Proclamation continues these silver fourpences, threepences, the new twopences, and pennies. Ruskin. in "Fors After the splendid courage of Clavigera," described the devices Henry VIII's reign, the quality of on the penny with some particular- the silver money. declined until it reformed. under Elizabeth. ity. "Not that, except under pro- was test, I call such a thing as that The use of the mill and screw press the hand Farthings, when he in coining, instead of a Penny!" was a boy, were as big, and two- hammer, began about the middle of waistcoat pocket. the sixteenth century, but not for pence filled a

the lady "sitting apa century was the old method super- Who was

the edge of a dish-eeded. A great recoinaga in 1696, parently on cover?" and so on. In a later let- according to principles advocated ter, when referring to the St. by Locke, the philosopher, reformed George's Company, he would have the silver money of the realm. It

money.

of

A view of the White House blanketed in snow as the result of the first winter weather and snow experienced by. Washington.

reduced to the the "International commerce of the the metallic currency to be "of ab- was not formally Middle Ages. The decay of France solute pure gold and silver, and of level of token currency, with gold standard, until 1816, la truly indicated by the coins of those metals only." The dear, un as the sole King John, misnamed the Good, a practical idealist was not legislat- and for more than half a century spendthrift of Incredible extrava-ing for a world he knew, still less before the new coinage in that year gance who debased the currency for a world that was to develop there had been scarcely any new eighty-one times in five years. The after him.

money issued, vicissitudes of the States of When, the Sovereign Was Coined.

It was then Pistrucci restored medieval Italy are faithfully re- Coins have an appeal that paper beauty and dignity to British cur- corded in a motley variety of cur- money, too often crumpled and rency, especially by his noble This rency, and the greatness of our dirty, can never have. Who can George and Dragon design. Tudor period in gold and silver feel any emotion about a Bradbury does not appear on any of the new coins of splendour, beauty, fineness, or a Fisher per se. What charm coins. Its employment on crown- proportions that made them sought have they? But the sovereign, pieces might have been continued, for and imitated throughout the which Henry VII. first gave us, as to redder them fully worthy of an Europe.

he did the shilling, was a noble unbroken series issued under every -Admirable coins come always and pleasant thing, a thing to Sovereign since Elizabeth, There some. notable crowns, from a great State, great in the honour and cherish. Our ancestors have been highest sense, and not merely named their coins nobly. Edward triumphs of numismatic art, since III. bestowed upon his country the the piece was first struck in allver materially, aB mean and corrupt from a State barbarous or de- gold noble, indeed, and his succes under Edward VI. However, thei the gold 'angel, which new designs, briefly described in generate. That is why,, while all sor added who, whether in banks and count took its name from St. Michael. the Proclamation, can hardly fall ing-houses, or in their business or Such was the high repute to the to be an improvement on the pre- domestic affairs, have to handle angel that after ceasing to cirvious ones for shillings and six-

was still coined to be them demand utility and conveni- culúte it

pentes. ence, we also. demand a certain given by the King to those whom he touched to cure "the King's evil," scrofula..

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