Definition

• To depreciate coins in price or value. Holinshed, in his Chronicles, 1577 (iii. 1192), states that " the teston coined for twelue pence and in the reigne of King Edward embased by proclamation to six pence." See Debased and Imbasing.

Quelle

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

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