Sequin, or Ze chin, Italian, called also Girdiato, a former gold coin of Venice, Genoa, Rome, Milan, Piedmont, and Tuscany, of the average value of 98. 41d. It is also used in Algeria, where it is worth 6s. 10;d.
Sequin, or Checqueen , Turkish ; the gold coins of Turkey are the sequin funducli, with halves and quarters ; the double sequin, or yermeebeshlik, and the roubieh. There are other sequins beside the above, which bear different names, and their values also vary according to the periods of their coinage. The sequin of Egypt is valued at 5s. 4;d. Shilling, an English silver coin, the twentieth part of a pound, and weighing 3 dwts. 15A grs. It represents the old Saxon scilling; it was also called a testoon, from the bead on it when coined by Henry VII., Shoe of gold, an ingot, used as money in China. The name is English. r Kelly, speaking of China, says, " Gold is not considered as money, but as merchandise ; it is sold in regular ingots of a deter mined weight, which the English call shoes of gold ; the largest of these weigh 10 taels each, and the gold is reckoned 94 touch, though it may be only 92 or 93." Sixpence, an English silver coin, the half of a shilling, weighing 1 dwt. grs.
Shilling, a copper coin of Denmark, worth about a farthing. The Norway shilling is worth nearly a halfpenny.
Soldo, a small copper coin of Italy. There are half soldi, and quat trini, the fifth part of a soldo.
Sou, or Sul, a money of account and copper coin in France and Switzerland. It is equal to 5 centimes, and is worth about a halfpenny.
Souverain, a former gold coin of Austria. Its value was 13s. llid. There were also half and double souverains.
Sovereign, the name of an English gold coin in use as early as 1526; but name and coin were discontinued till revived in the latter end of the reign of George III. and applied to the coin now forming the unit of our gold currency. The sovereign weighs 5 dwts. 34 grs., and is worth 20s. of the Mint standard gold of 22 carats fine. The half-sovereign and have precisely proportionate values.
Stiver, a money of account and copper coin in Holland and the Netherlands, containing 2 greets Flemish, or 8 duyts, or doits, and valued at one penny English. It is also used as a money of account in Denmark: 96 divers= 1 rigsbank daler.
Teel, a money of account in China, reckoned at 6s. 7d.
Taro, a silver coin of Sicily and Malta, of the value of 4d.
resume, or Testoon, a silver coin in Italy, and also in Portugal. In Italy the testone of Bologna is rated at 30 soldi ; at Parma the testone is of 6 lire 6 soldi ; at Rome of 6 paoli. Kelly gives the sterling value at a little more than is 3d. The value of the Portugal testoon is 5.1d. Thaler, is the German dollar, of which almost every state has its own. The specie dollar varies but little in value, which is about 4s. The current thaler and the reichsthaler are moneys of account, worth about one-third less. The Prussian, Hadoverian, and Brunswick thaler is worth 2s. 11d. ; the Convention thaler about 3s. 11d.; the Kron thaler about 4s. 6d.: all circulate in the north of Germany.
a copper coin of Naples, of the value of half a grano, or of an English penny.
Vinton, a Portuguese and Brazilian copper coin, worth 20 rees ; there are also 3, 6, and 12 vintem coins in silver.
Zicanziger, or Kopfstiick, of Wiirtemberg, is a silver coin worth 8d. English ; the name is properly Austrian,Where it passes for 20 kreut zers, while in Wiirtemberg and Bavaria it passes for 24.
There are, no doubt, numerous others both as coins and as moneys of account, but the most of them will be found local, and comparatively unimportant. The progress in every civilised country has been to simplify its currency ; and in various instances to assimilate it to that of a neighbouring country, or of one with which they have much commercial intercourse. For further information see The Modern Cambist by W. Tate. In most of the continental countries of Europe, except France, Holland, and Belgium, the greater part of the currency consists of paper.
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