Definition

• The largest of all the gold coins of Scotland, struck bv James VI in 1576. The motto on the reverse, PAECEBE . SVBIECTIS . & DEBELLARE . SVPEBBOS, i.e., " To spare the humbled, and to crush the insolent," is taken from Virgil Aen. (vi. 853).

Quelle

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

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