half-noblen.
A gold coin issued by Edw. III in 1344 and by succeeding kings to Edward IV.
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1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxv. 231 The halfe noble of the value of thre shyllinges four pens.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking x. 222.
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