Definition

• This term means not only the right to coin money, but was also formerly applied to a tax paid to some of the Norman rulers of England, in consideration of their refraining from debasing the coinage.

  Carte, History of England, 1747 (i. 482), says: "Moneyage was a duty of twelve pence paid every third year in Normandie to the Duke for not altering the coin."

  Hume, History of England, 1762 (i. App.) has: "Moneyage was also a general land-tax... levied by the two first Norman Kings, and abolished by the charter of Henry I."

Quelle

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

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