British coin Triple Unite
The Triple Unite, valued at sixty shillings, 60/- or three pounds, was the highest British denomination to be produced in the era of the hammered coinage. It was only produced during the Civil War, at King Charles I's mints at Oxford (between 1642 and 1644) and, rarely, at Shrewsbury in 1642.The gold coins are undoubtedly magnificent pieces of work, and they show the king holding a sword and an olive branch on the obverse, signifying his wish for peace rather than war.
The extremely rare Shrewsbury-produced coin shows, on the obverse, a plume behind the kings' head surrounded by the legend CAROLUS DG MAG BRIT FRAN ET HIBER REX -- Charles by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland. The reverse shows the legend RELIG PROT LEG ANG LIBER PAR in two lines -- The religion of the Protestants, the laws of England and the liberty of Parliament, with three plumes and the value numeral III above the declaration and the year 1642 below it, the whole being surrounded by the legend EXURGAT DEUS DISSIPENTUR INIMICI -- Let God arise and His enemies be scattered.
The Oxford issues are very similar to the Shrewsbury one, except that the legend on the reverse appears in three lines rather than two, and the obverse legend appears as CAROLUS DG MAG BRIT FR ET HIB REX. Oxford coins appear with slight design differences in each year of 1642, 1643, and 1644.
For other denominations, see British coinage.
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men, and even these are not numerous, for man appears to
we pass a sedan chair, or one passes us, closely covered up, which
temple or relative; but I do not recall seeing in China any woman
Chinamen sentence their ladies to seclusion. A curious
one of the leading Chinese merchants of San Francisco with his
passengers, he engaged a portion of the steerage, had it closely
of us during the entire voyage. He and she took their meals
was carried secretly on deck for a breath of air; of course with
ordered on deck before the process began. This necessity had
difficulty did our good doctor encounter with them. The husband
wife would run the risk of being fumigated to death. The operation
beauty taken secretly to it.
A Chinese woman in China would hold it disgraceful to expose her
of propriety as she is reputed, would not consider a lady properly
better--who did not expose her face and neck and shoulders to full
things wrong within a very wide range of affairs. Chinese women
for their woeful lack of knowledge and their wickedness in marring
heinous to the female mind.
Our visit to the Celestial Empire is now at an end. We sail at
hundred miles south. The more we see of China the greater it
times the population, and not one mile of telegraph or railroad in
enough for anything wider than a wheelbarrow--and yet a reading
form of settled government the oldest in the world--how
paradoxical condition of affairs is, I think, that the.
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