Definizione

• A term used to indi- cate coins which were purposely bent and then given as pledges of love or friend- ship. Thomas Greene, in The Art of Con- ny-Catching , 1592, has as follows: " Taking forth a bowed groat and an old penny bowed he gave it [sic] her. "

  A passage in the will of Sir Edward Howard, 1512, copied in Archaeologia (xxxviii. 370), reads, " I bequeathe him my rope of bowed nobles. "

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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