Isaac said, 'My friend's shilling, though magnificent, and arguably worth two or even three shillings in the market, is no anomaly. Here I have a shilling from the reign of Edward VI, which I obtained after an inebriated son of a Duke, who happened to have borrowed a shilling from me some time earlier, fell unconscious on a floor – the purse in which he carried his finest coins fell open and this rolled out of it – I construed this as repayment of the debt, and the exquisite condition of the coin as interest.'