MONEY. At a time When industry has caused the assembling in London of visitors from so many countries, it would not be an inconsistent feature in this work to present a Table of the values of some of the best kno*n European coins. Jelly's Cambist is our authority.
Bajocchio ; copper coin at Rome and Bologna; worth rather more than one halfpenny. Batzen ; a Swiss coin of inferior silver about lid.
Carline ; Piedmont gold coin; about 51.12s. 3d. Cash; Chinese coin of copper and lead; about 120 to a penny.
Cent ; United States' copper coin ; about Old. In France a cent or centime is not a coin, but a money of account, one-hundredth of franc.
Cowries ; shells used for money in the east ; about 120 to a penny.
Crown; the crown coins in foreign countries have been mostly superseded by other de nominations.
Crusado ; Portuguese coins, both gold and silver ; about 2s. Gd.
Dime; United States' silver coin ; Old. Doit ; Dutch copper coin ; half a farthing.
Dollar; United States' silver coin, 4s. 4d. Also a Spanish silver coin, 4s. 31d. See also Thaler and Rix-thaler.
Doubloon; Spanish gold coin ; about 3/. Os. Ducat ; there are gold ducats in Russia, Swe den, Holland, and Germany, varying in value from 8s. 4d. to 9s. 5d. There are sil ver ducats in Italy ; about 3s. Dd.
Eagle ; United States' gold coin; about 21. 4s. Florin ; there are both gold and silver florins in Germany; worth respectively about Ti.
and ls. 8d. to 2s.
Franc ; French silver coin, 91d. Also a Swiss silver coin; ls. 2d.
Frederick; Prussian gold coin ; 16s. 4d. Guilder; another name for Florin.
Groschen ; German silver coin ; ld. to 11d. Imperial ; Russian gold coin ; 33s. 4d.
Kopeck ; Russian copper coin ; rather less than Id.
Kreutter ; German copper coin ; three to one penny Mark ; Hamburg silver coin ; about ls. 3d. DTdree ; Portuguese gold coin ; about Os. Ilfohur ; East Indies gold coin ; about 338. Napoleon ; French gold coin ; 15s. 10d. Paolo or Paul ; Italian silver coin; 51d.
Pfenning ; Prussian copper coin ; ten to a penny.
Piastre; Levant silver coin ; rather over Pistole ; German gold coin ; about 21s. Also an Italian gold coiii variable in value in different states.
Real; Spanish silver coin ; 5d. The Real vellon is a smaller coin ; 21d.
Rix-thakr ; German silver coin; about 4s. 2d.
The Danish Bigsbank Maier is about 2s. 3d. Rouble ; Russian silver coin; 3s. ld. There are platinum coins of three and six roubles. Rupee; East Indian silver coin ; about 2s. Schilling ; German coin of inferior silver ; about 11d.
Scudo ; Italian silver coin ; about 4s. 4d. Sechsling ; Hamburg copper or baso silver ' coin ; rather more than Old.
Italian gold coin ; about 9s. 5d. The Turkish sequin varies much in value.
Sou ; French copper coin, nth of a franc ; about Old.
Sliver ; Dutch copper coin ; about ld.
Thaler; the ordinary name in Germany for the .Rix-thaler or Rix-dollar.
The weights of English gold and silver coins are as follow:— Dwt. Grains.
Sovereign 5 3.274 Half sovereign . 2 13.637 Crown 18 4.4 - elevenths.
Half crown 9 2.2 - elevenths.
Shilling 3 15.3 - elevenths.
Sixpence . 1 19.7 - elevenths.
Fourpence 1 5.1 - eleventh.