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ˈsiege-piece
[siege n. 6.]
1. A coin or piece of money, characterized by unusual shape and imperfect workmanship, struck and issued during a time of siege.
1736M. Folkes Gold Coins 7, I have among the Siege-Pieces seen a Twenty-Shilling Piece of Gold, struck at Pontefract. 1798H. Walpole Reminis. in Lett. (1857) I. p. xcii, My narrative will probably resemble siege-pieces, which are struck of any promiscuous metals. 1853H. N. Humphreys Coin-coll. Man. i. 5 The rude ‘siege pieces’ struck without coining apparatus in different parts of the kingdom. 1879H. Phillips Notes Coins 12 There are various siege pieces of Charles I, who never in all his extremities resorted to the expedient of a debased coinage.
2. A piece of ordnance employed in sieges.
1799Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 25/1 The French found in the towers of Joppa ten pieces of cannon and about twenty indifferent siege-pieces. |