| 单词 | coinage house |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoinage house 4. The official stamping of blocks of tin (see coin v.1 3); the right of doing this, formerly a privilege of certain towns in Cornwall and Devon. Also attributive as in coinage house, coinage town. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > mark of quality > [noun] > official stamping of metals coinage1495 hallmarking1879 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 4 §12 Weightis apperteynyng..to the Cunage of Tynne within the counties of Cornewall and Devonshire. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 10 A good Market Toun having..Coinage twis a Yere for Tynne for Tynne Blokkes. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xxv. i. 365 There is also coignage of tin holden yearelie at..Midsummer and Michaelmas in the west countrie; which..I supposed to haue beene of monie of the said mettall..Howbeit..I find it to be nothing so, but an office onlie erected for the prince..and such blocks of tin as haue passed the hands of his officers, are marked with an especiall stampe. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4458/1 At the Coynage now held at Truroe. 1763 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1752 (Royal Soc.) 52 507 The driver of a plough..laden with tin, for Penzance Coinage. 1811 Risdon's Chorogr. Surv. Devon (new ed.) Addit. 405 The Stannators.. were elected by the Mayors..of certain Towns..called Coinage Towns. < as lemmas |
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