Excerpt from Chronicon Preciosum: Or an Account of English Money, the Price of Corn, and Other Commodities, for the Last 600 Years The Chapters then, oeoney, might have been much more tompleat, by, the Addition of 5, or 6 Plates of the fe veral Coins we have had, fince the Conquefl. Of the Golden Ones, -i defpair of ever feeing a Colleetion, of any tolerable Antiquity fince they who are lye/i, as I hear, provided of the/i: Treajm'es, can ri eno higher than Ed. Lll'. And for my own (part, I have never feen an} one rpiece, older than H. VI. And that was, I believe, a French one too And I am confident, that to a coni mon Cnriofity, a G'iece of Gold, older than the lafl Edward, will a very great Rarity. And yet, full Five hundred Years jince 'the Con: qucfl, one may well imagine, to the reader.
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