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Title: The Coinages of the Channel Islands

Author: B. Lowsley

Release Date: June 18, 2009 [EBook #29157]

Language: English

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THE COINAGES
OF THE
CHANNEL ISLANDS.

BY

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL B. LOWSLEY,

ROYAL ENGINEERS (RETD.).

Author of Contributions on "The Coins and Tokens of Ceylon" (_Numismatic
Chronicle, Vol. XV._); "The XVIIth Century Tokens of Berkshire"
(_Williamson's Edition of Boyne's XVIIth Century Tokens_); "Berkshire
Dialect and Folk Lore, with Glossary" (_the Publication of the English
Dialect Society_), &c., &c., &c.

London:
VICTORIA PRINTING WORKS,
118 STANSTEAD ROAD, FOREST HILL, AND 15 KIRKDALE, SYDENHAM.

1897.

INDEX.

PAGE

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON COINAGES FOR THE CHANNEL
ISLANDS 1

THE EARLIEST COINS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 4

ROMAN COINS IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 7

ON EARLY IMPORTED COINS AND THEIR VALUES 9

THE COATS OF ARMS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 26

THE JERSEY SILVER TOKENS OF 1813 28

COPPER AND BRONZE COINAGES OF JERSEY FROM 1841 30

ON GUERNSEY COINS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES 33

COPPER AND BRONZE COINAGES OF GUERNSEY FROM 1830 37

SILVER COUNTERMARKED GUERNSEY CROWN 38

CHANNEL ISLANDS COPPER TOKENS 39

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 40

The Coinages of the Channel Islands.

BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL B. LOWSLEY, (Retired) Royal Engineers.