London . [Creator Shilling of lliiiry Mil [The George Noble of Henry VIII.] was derived from the French word teste or tete, a head, the royal portrait being-stamped in the novel forni of a profile. The coin itself was often called a testoon in the course of a reign or two obtained a bad reputation, havingbecome greatly debased. Heywood has several epigrams on the subject. Hereis one of them :—? These testoons look red ; how like you the same?Tis a token of grace: they blusli for shame. The debasement here referred to commenced with the reign of Henry VHI.,who, to the other characteri
London . [Creator Shilling of lliiiry Mil [The George Noble of Henry VIII.] was derived from the French word teste or tete, a head, the royal portrait being-stamped in the novel forni of a profile. The coin itself was often called a testoon in the course of a reign or two obtained a bad reputation, havingbecome greatly debased. Heywood has several epigrams on the subject. Hereis one of them :—? These testoons look red ; how like you the same?Tis a token of grace: they blusli for shame. The debasement here referred to commenced with the reign of Henry VHI.,who, to the other characteristics of his reign, added the feature that he was thefirst English sovereign who corrupted the sterling quality of his coin. His pre-decessors had often tried the effect of making a small piece of silver or gold passfor the value of larger ones ; but in some cases this may have arisen from erro-neous notions as to the laws which govern the value of mone\, and, at the worst,it was a sort of frank disho
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