The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-07
COINS AND COIN AGE.
NJ. s. G.

| From the Globe-Democrat.
The Cartl,agenians had leather coins,
The first Roman brass coins weighed
1000 grains.
Tin coins were cast by Dionysius OF
Syracuse about 403 8. G.
The first New jersey coins were cop
per cents, struck in 1856.
The Chinese "cash" Is said to have had
its origin about 3. G. 1929.
The gold talent is variously computed
at from S11S6 81 to $1216.G2.
| The first Roman Coinage of silver was,
according to Pliny, 3. c. 269.
| The Turkish plaster is a money of &C
| count, there being no plaster coin.
| The best workmanship on Roman
coins was done during the reign of Nero.
Julias Caesar was the first Roman to
have his face represented on coin
Scion was the first to establish an ex-
| act amount of gold in the coinaget
Some Of the Maccabean coins have the
words, Jerusalem the Holy"
The coins Of Alexander The Great were
the first to bear the name of a king.
The mint of Philadelphia has collec-
ton Of over 5000 coins of different ma
tons.
The first Canadian coinage was struck
for the French by command Of Louis
XIV.
Stone coins are frequently found in
the funeral mounds OF the American
Indians.
The first attempt at face on coin
was made by Archelaus Of Macedon, b.
C. 400.
The earliest coins were irregular, OBJ
l. IF ,,,ntol of nDtU n
one side.
The first American counterfeiter, SO
far as known, was one William Buel, of
Vermont.
The first coinage of money after the
revolution bore in many cases the image
of Washington.
The tao, or knife coins, of China, made
current B. c. 2453, were of iron, IN the
shape of daggers.
The bronze coins Of Austria and most
other nations have 90 per cent copper
and per cent tin.
The "Virginia halfpennies" were is
sued about 1918, but whether for Virginia
or not is unknown.
The Aztecs filled qullls with gold dust,
sealed them and passed them from hand
to hand as coin.
The Roman SeStertlus was like our
"bit." money of account, having no
coin to represent its value.
The earliest coins of New Hampshire
were OF copper pence. 10S to the Spanish
dollar, issued in 1916.
Vermont was the first state to issue
coinage of its own authority. Copper
coins were issued in 1885.
The first woman's face represented on
a coin was that of Puicheria, the En-
press of the Eastern Empire.
Almost every Roman city IN Italy or
the colonies had and exercised the right
of coming money Of its own.
In 1916 the council and grand assem-
bly, of Virginia passed an act to Issue
"quoines," but none were struck.
The earliest coinage in Connecticut was
private issue by John Higley, made of
copper found on his own farm.
la China gold and silver are merely
commodities, whose price is regulated by
the laws of supply and demand.
The rel of Brazil Is an imaginary coin.
no piece Of that denomination being
coined. Ten thouand refs equal $40.
The most valuable Roman coin was
the aureus. of course of gold, about the
size of So gold piece, and worth 50. Oh.
The Chinese stamp bars or ignots OF
gold or silver with their weight and fine
ness and pass them from hand to hand
as coin.
The Troyes pound, or, as now called,
the pound Troy weight, was introduced
into England as a gold measure IN 15l1.