Basel Public Deposited
Holinshed, Chronicles , 1577 (ii. 67), states that in " the same yeare [i.e., in 1158], also the King altered his coine, abrogating certeine peeces called basels." See Ruding, Annals of the Coinage of Britain. 1840. (i. 170).
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)