Moidore, a former gold coin of Portugal, of 4800 reis, of the value of 1/. Is. Sd. sterling.
Napoleon, a gold coin of France, the successor of the Ionia-trot., of the value of 21) franca. The value is 15.. 10d.; of the hali-napoleon or 10-franc piece, 7.. 11d. ; of the double, or 40-franc piece, IL 118. ad. The napoleon weighs 99'564 grains, and contains 89%1 grains of pure gold.
Noble, an old English coin, worth Cs. 8d.
Oban, the largest gold coin of Japan, three times the value of the copang.
Obeli, and obolieci, moneys of account in the Ionian Islands; 104 obeli= I dollar, worth 48.4d. ; 5 obolicci = I obeli, which is worth an English halfpenny.
(Mateo, the smallest copper coin of Spain; it is reckoned equal to 2 mamvedis, or the 17th part of a real.
Once, a Sicilian gold coin of the value of 30 tar;, each taro being subdivided into 20 grani. Its value is about.108. 35d. There is another onza, of a later coinage, of exactly double the weight and value.
0 ,:e de ore, a Spanish gold coin ; the same as the dublon.
Om (from the Saxon ape, metal), a money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, whatever it might have been in other parts of Europe. In the Dumeaday Survey, it is need for the ounce, or a twelfth part of the nummulary pound. There appear to have been two sorts of ors in Use in the Saxon times, one of sixteen pence to the ors,. the other of twenty pence. The ore of Domesday Book Ls perpetually valued at twenty pence. The ore of sixteen pence was of earlier data.
Ow, a coin of Norway, called in some parts a mark, and worth about ION.
Nye/a, a gold coin on the Coromandel coast, in the East Indies, now disused, of which there were several kinds : namely, the star pagoda of the value of 7s. 5Id. ; old Arcot pagoda, 78. 2d. ; new Arcot pagoda, 58. 8:d.; Onore pagoda, 78. 10d.; Mangalore pagoda, is. 10:d.; pagoda with a crescent and one figure, 7s. 6d.; pagoda of Pondicherry, 68. 5d. ; Hyderee heon, or pagoda, 78. 8d.; Sultannee Noon, or pagoda, 8s. 5d. • Tippoo's farufei, is. llid.
, Paoo a small silver coin at Florence, Rome, and other place in Italy, with its double, half. and quarter. The value of the paolo is 54d.
Papetto, a small silver coin of Rome, value 10:d.
Pataea, a Brazilian silver coin, worth 4s. 21d. It is often called the Brazilian dollar.
Para, a Turkish and Egyptian money of account. The five pars piece is the only copper coin in Egypt. 40 paras = 1 piastre.
Penny.-The early English coins of this name were of silver, and of varying worth. It has been long the largest current copper coin, the twelfth part of a shilling ; the fractional halfpenny and farthing are also common ; but there has been no copper coin of larger value since the twopenny-piece of George III.
Peseta, a Spanish silver coin, now disused ; the old Mexican peseta of two Mexican reals, 1736. was of the value in sterling of ls. Id.; the peseta is now about equal to the French franc, or 9id.
Peso, an imaginary Spanish money frequently used in expressing values, and reckoned at about 2s. 8d. The peso is used in regulating the exchange with foreign countries.
Peso duro, a money of account at Gibraltar, worth 48. 2d.
Pezza, a gold coin of Sicily, now seldom seen, of which the value was 21s. 3d. It is now a Maltese silver coin, worth 4s. 2d.
Pfennig. a Hamburg coin, of which 12=one whining, and 16 Fail lings =1 mark, which in the currency (which varies from banco, the money of account) is worth 18. 24d. ; the mark banco is reckoned at 171d. In Hanover 24 pfennigen =1 gute groschen. In Prossta the pfennig is worth one-tenth of an English penny.
Piastre, a silver coin of Naples, now disused, worth 4s. English. There was also a tnezza-piastra, of half the value.
Piastre, a money of account and a silver coin in Turkey and Egypt. The piastre of Mustapha III., 1757, was of the sterling value of is bold. The piastre of Egypt, of 40 paras, is now worth only 2f d., and that of Turkey, 24d.
Pica, a money of account and a copper coin in the East Indies; 14 pica are equal to one ana, a pica is therefore worth half a farthing.