| 单词 | wire money |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswire money wire money n. Numismatics (now rare) a type of silver coinage minted in 1792, inscribed with very slender wire-like numerals. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > other miscellaneous English coins baselinga1255 scute1472 basel1577 lundress1695 halfling1819 wire money1837 brabant1840 fifty-pence piece1969 twenty-pence piece1981 1837 W. Till Ess. Rom. Denarius & Eng. Sliver Penny 103 The wire money, so termed from the numeral being extremely fine. 1913 F. W. Burgess Chats on Old Coins xiv. 240 The Maundy money of George III followed the type of the current issues, with the exception of the year 1792, when a distinct change was made, in the type of the numeral of value, which took the form of script writing, and became known as ‘wire’ money, from the delicate wire-like writing of the numeral. 1996 Standard Catal. Brit. Coins: Coins of Eng. & U.K. (ed. 31) 271 Fourpence..Thin 4 (‘Wire Money’), 1792. < as lemmas |
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