 | 1824 - 884 σελίδες
...then placed between two dies, containing the design of the coin, and the upper one was struck with л hammer. This money was necessarily imperfect, from...as too expensive, and the hammer coinage resumed. (Henry II.) palace at Paris, for the coining of coun- Coinage, ters. It continued in use till 1585,... | |
 | 1825 - 486 σελίδες
...afterwards rounded and adjusted to the weight of the money to be made ; the blank pieces of money were then placed between two dies, containing the design...hammer coinage resumed. The coining -press, or mill, is of French origin, and is generally ascribed to Antoine Brucher, an engraver, who, in 1553, first... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 σελίδες
...uncertainty of placing the dies exactly over each other ; and also from the difficulty of striking single act equal. Hammer money, however, continued to be current until the reign of William III., when it was... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 628 σελίδες
...dies exactly over each other, and also from the improbability of a man 520 MINT— MINUCIUS FELIX. being able to strike a blow with such force as to...make all parts of the impression equally perfect. The coining-press, or mill, is of French origin, and is generally said to have been first tried in the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 σελίδες
...is always imperfect, from the uncertainty of placing the two dies exactly over each other, and also from the improbability of a man being able to strike a blow with such force as to make all ports of the impression equally perfect. The coining-press, or mill, is of French origin, and is generally... | |
 | 1834 - 494 σελίδες
...when the blank piece was between them, as well as from the impossibility of a man being able to strike with such force, as to make all 'parts of the impression equally perfect. The mill and screw, or, as we now term it, the coining press, was first invented in France, as is supposed,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1835 - 316 σελίδες
...by the uncertainty of placing the two dies exactly over each other, and the improbability of a man's being able to strike a blow with such force as to...make all parts of the impression equally perfect. The coining press, or mill, now used, was invented in France. The bars o.' ingots of gold or silver, after... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 608 σελίδες
...two dies exactly over each other, and also from the improbability of a man 520 MINT-MINUCIUS FELIX. being able to strike a blow with such force as to...make all parts of the impression equally perfect. The coining-press, or mill, is of French origin, and is generally said to have been first tried in the... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1836 - 334 σελίδες
...Whatisths general object of a bankrupt law? exactly over each other, and the improbability of a man's being able to strike a blow with such force as to...make all parts of the impression equally perfect. The coining' ptess, or mill, now used, was invented in France. The bars or ingots of gold or silver, after... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1839 - 472 σελίδες
...by the uncertainty of placing the two dies exactly over each other, and the improbability of a man's being able to strike a blow with such force as to make all parts of the impression equally perfect. § 338. The coining press, or mill, now used, was invented in France. The bars or ingots of gold or... | |
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hammer. This money was necessarily imperfect, from the difficulty of placing the two dies exactly over each other when the blank piece was between them, as well as from the improbability of a man being able to strike a blow with such force as to make... 