A Table of English Silver Coins from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time: With Their Weights, Intrinsic Values, and Some Remarks Upon the Several Pieces (Classic Reprint) by Martin Folkes (Paperback / softback, 2016)
Excerpt from A Table of English Silver Coins From the Norman Conquest to the Present Time: With Their Weights, Intrinsic Values, and Some Remarks Upon the Several Pieces The pennies of the firfi Henry were like thofe of his henry I. Father and brother, to which, as the hifiorians very particu 00' larly tell us, he added half pennies alfo, and thofe round like his pennies. Yet have ne of' thefe hit, that I kw of, been preferved to our time, and very few were in all probability coined, fince even the memory of them feems to have been loft within a few years. The pennies w I have feen, and which I take to have been certainly of this king, were of very barbarous work, and reprefented him full faced, with an annulet or eylet-hole on each fide of his head. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.