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1695 W. Lowndes Further Ess. Amendm. Gold & Silver Coins 16 All Birmingham Moneys shall be brought into the Mint by a prescrib'd Time, and a Fund settled to answer the defect of it.

1762 London Evening-post 30 Jan. If in taking Change for a Guinea there should be twenty Birmingham Shillings, the remaining Shilling will have the same intrinsic Value.

1816 Q. Rev. Apr. 219 The evil of the old Birmingham halfpence, or the present generation of Irish shillings.

1890 North-Eastern Daily Gaz. 28 June At this time the Birmingham shilling was current, and he used the following precaution to avoid the imposition of a bad one.

1949 Numismatic Lit. No. 7. 227 Chief among them [sc. the coins circulating in colonial Pennsylvania] were the Spanish milled dollar..and the English halfpenny (with its Birmingham counterfeits) for small change.

2009 T. Levenson Newton & Counterfeiter v. 51 Such coins were called Birmingham groats, testimony to the enthusiasm with which the city's metalworkers embraced the craft.