Copper Noses Öffentlichkeit Deposited

Definition
  • A nickname given to the English silver of the fourth and fifth coinages of Henry VIII. They were great- ly debased, and having the full face of the king, they soon began to wear and show the inferior metal at the end of the nose, the most prominent part.

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

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