Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-05

IL rs EU,tV Articles is:it = ere Of sta bio
Na,u,-TEc names Of iHc Various Coin.
oc the Great Word.
II Great Britain II tie tim" # tho
Norman conquest we've two kinds OF
mon. living I,la.I, y. j. C.. slaves and
cattle. and zoe. I I.....sgv." th2t Of natal.
l.. she 18Th century N:c..lY ard Ndtt,c
70 found Il money il l.se il China
U airh was made Of Ike inner bark Of t'.C
mulberry ire, &El which il was death
ly torture to counterfeit CT to refuse t
tax in any part Of the country. Among
the south Sd islanders iron WAS SO
". nat II became money, and axes
4 >.;.i. s.r1 Of payment, the value q other
articles being stated - 50 many axes.
CoW-ie shells are use. - small coins III
India. the East IH.iiau islands and Africa,
more th,.A 1000 toms being brought II
Liverpool il 1871 from India to lie cX-
To~,.d to the African coast Ill exchange
for aim oil IN America wampum was
Us,.l l.y Ike Indians and was even coun-
tc-tritcd in 1O35 isy Tie colonists Of Mas
s2vhuS,trs.
In India cakes Of tr.. and III China
pieces Of silk pass as money, while at the
great annual iairat Nizilnee-N prEurol i'll
Russia the price Of tea has II be known
before the prices Of other commodities
are fixed. il being the standard by which
all exchange Of mcrchandiseis regulated.
In I5.4 quantities of pasteboard were
coined in Holland. and in ITO in Scot
land vvOrkmen carried nails as money to
bake shops and alehouses. Notched
wood was used at one time in England,
ana III central paris q SCUM Amer iN'''
soap chocoIal'' cCCoalluIS' eSSs, tSc''
pass rs money IN brl'lSh " est lhilGS
ulI,lI 81 l.Ie H'ssT9 pms d S-lce oI Drt't"'
llhCn oI sAUn U u Dram oI WHISKY
served inc same purpose. III -AilerIt''
III various Tunes r'ccOCn' uecr anu pLa .
S'--HS, ''.LI' '',tI' 5o.'''c'o ana eo''ii5''
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l',''.--' INNS '''t"Ei
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L--- ,.'- '--- '-'-l'l q .-' l'Il-'S u COINS
."i--.--''E 10 U0 HOW, ne AN, FlCi'll "ol-
l'F .-..7 Ho''.' Z. lI''I' history OF us own
IN M IN i.".''IlIa Is 4 httIe valley
cali! q %. i.l-'i~'',-' or 3oacllllH Na!ieE'
al-d Ill tine l".A century LlrrclGnlnS duke
4 t--.' r"-5..n "l'l9"1Izr.! TINS little lnln-
~ CITY OF ui~jT!c; 10 com a SILVER piece,
winch was ,@llrt Joacnn>tillcr. But
tL- .i"a,A-iH ."r- f tn" name proving
to'lHurh I"rv''l'N-! U.s., II was dropped
anl that Of i!@l'r'."tm",t sufficient. The
piece I,,in- Of convenient slz" and well
mold,t lil>-vd int" general Use III Ger
many 'l"! D,nnark, and again under
went "a '!Et'.-" III photography, finally
turlias up "r H." "dalcr. whence 1t
rt'..' Iai' En-!l~i az the dollar. and WAS
'.'i'l ..rl as ~urh t'E tine Alnrrcans
la ! r.1r'' I 'l'' IL Air'ln dollar Is S"n"r-
ally -'.l-~l i-'-' ''IH.~tr". arl the mama
= s..- applied T." tn" American com, but
ia 'Ilir rrs,-,' alIH.llatlonlS incorrect,
forth l:alr,. l..4~.r-. or plaster, has for
t.,' i..~' - ,.,:r~ In applied correctly
only "a NAL. silver coin used in Turkey
and EEyI'. and which Is worth from
about . T" y cents III American coinage.
Inr word Int comes Of course from
ceH,ul. being al hundreith part of the
Am, rlcan dollar. the dime also meaning
tenth
Inc We.l SMILING Is OF Saxon origin
an. VS. nltE"iuced INTO England by
that people, Penny, formerly ''pten-
NJ, was also l'rouEht into England by
The SdNyAS anu was LrSt coined III sill
'eF '''4l 'E..,',lA''E DERIVE" from the
"OE" lF.ld' L. pawn Mlln the ulllllhu-
i've SUNK M. Inc coSnomen'
crown ~ i-!e LnSllsA piece, worth
aDo"l 81 Ill american coinage, was
lE~' l--''-d ~ Inward III ana named
III c5:.~'-!uei'-t 81 the image placed upon
IT, In- "T""t was hrst coined by the
sam" m""'rcl and Is 4 corruption Of
the word '.-r'S@"@' in c"ntradistinction
~ the small coins or pennies. Its value
was equal IN about four OF the latter
COINS.
The Russian ''rubLe' comes from the
verb 10 cut" az4d WIS 80 ctlled frozn
the ornamental cyiKp tire rtee formerly
ifrl. Tn r,,-rr,rk is c71rs1 in v7tIug 70 two
r,pr,ca - e ale, +ha k-r-7+7,r IN Arl-r4o
y, ~. - ,.,,,,,t,-- A. 7-,sa+o -4oco
called the es,.nda corrasnonds 70 the
A,neri..., 5o11,r tho ,,sa+a ha;no tho
-1,,,I ,.,i,, ,..,,,csa,,+;rct +bo ,norc+o7IT.
st.r5..rl mi mcaniD% simnIv little
NICE" For several Lnndro1 Years and