Definition

• Lead was used for trial pieces, tokens, and counterfeit money from very early times. Among the known specimens prior to the Christian era are some belonging to the Kings of Numidia. In the second and third centuries A.D. leaden coins were issued in Egypt, especially at Memphis, and in the first and second centuries in Roman Gaul.

  This metal was also employed for striking obsidional coins, of which there is a series, consisting of one Sol to forty Sols, issued at Woerden when that city was he- sieged by the Spaniards in 1575-1576. See Mailliet, Monnaies obsidionales. 1870. (exxv. 1-9).

  There is an extensive series of Duits in lead struck by the Dutch in the eighteenth century Eor their possessions in Ceylon and Java.

  In the Danish issues for Trampiobar the leaden pieces originated under Christian I Y in 1640. See Indian Antiquary (xxiv. 22).

  Leaden tokens passing as half Pennies were issued to a considerable amount in England during the reign of Elizabeth; under .lames T all leaden tokens of private traders were abolished. Sec Nummi Plumbei.

  Erasmus, in his Adagia, mentions Plumbeos Angliae in use in the latter part of the reign of Henry VII; and Budelius, De Monetis, 1 591 (p. 5), states that these leaden tokens were still in circulation in his time.

Quelle

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

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