W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.
[This curious inscription, with a translation, is given by Milner, in his History of Winchester, vol. ii. p. 90.]
Coins of Edward III. struck at Antwerp in 1337.
—Ruding, in his Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain (3rd ed. p. 212.), describing the coins of Edward III. (who often resided on the Continent, and whose sister Eleanor was married to Raimond III., Duke of Guelder), says:
"In November A.D. 1337, according to Grafton, the king was made vicar-general and lieutenant to the emperor, with power to coin money of gold and silver. He kept his winter at the castle of Louvain, and caused great sums of money, both of gold and silver, to be coined at Antwerp."
And in the note:
"Chronicle [of Grafton?] sub anno. Froissart also mentions this fact. The silver coins were probably struck with English dies, and consequently are not now to be distinguished."
Now, you will oblige me by informing your English readers, that though these may have been struck with English dies, they can readily be distinguished from other English coins by the legends. They are represented on Pl. viii., Nos. 19. and 20., in my Munten der voormalige Hertogdommen Braband en Limburg, van de vroeyste Tijden tot aan de Pacificatie van Gend. The type is wholly English, and agrees with the coins of Edward III., as I have remarked in the text. The Moneta nostra indicates a joint coin (i.e. common to the emperor and to the king); as Coin No. 3. Pl. xxxiii. was probably a joint coin of Edward III. and Philip VI., King of France.
P. O. VAN DER CHŸS.
Leiden.