British coin Broad
The Broad was a British coin worth 20 shillings (20/-) issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. It was a milled gold coin weighing 9.0 - 9.1 grams, with a diameter of 29 or 30 millimetres, designed by Thomas Simon (also called Symonds).The obverse of the coin depicts the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell as a laureated Roman emperor, with the inscription OLIVAR D G R P ANG SCO HIB &c PRO -- Oliver, by the Grace of God, Protector of the Republic of England, Scotland, Ireland, etc., -- while the reverse shows a crowned shield depicting the arms of the Commonwealth with the inscription PAX QVAERITVR BELLO 1656 -- Peace is sought through war.
The current value of the coin in "very fine" to "extra fine" condition is £3500 to £6000, although a Mr Pinkerton writing at the time that the coins circulated noted that many of the coins in circulation were so worn as to be almost flat.
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Looked in my face, and smiled.
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And given him a sign.
Comfort of kindly speech,
Have helped me less than what I read
And dream again of heaven:
Your message has been given.
November, 1903.
LIGHT BETWEEN THE TREES
Long, long, long the trail
Down the shadowy, lonely vale
Where the light of life has fled,
Round the passionless repose
Step by step in mouldering moss;
Over languid streams that cross
In their aimless creeping
Through the enchanted ground.
"Yield, yield, yield thy quest,"
"Come to me and be at rest;
Then the weary feet would fail,
Urges "Forward, forward still!
See, the path is growing steep.
When the stream begins to leap.
Still shuts out the bending blue,
Cross the long divide.
On, on, onward tramp!
Over yonder lies the camp;
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Look, the summit must be near;
Of the splendour in the west,
Clear along the mountain-crest!
Out of sorrow's lonely vale;
Light between the trees!
March, 1904.
RELIANCE
Not to the swift, the race:
Not to the righteous, perfect grace:
Come surest to the goal;
The sunrise of the soul.
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A thousand times the vanquished right
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