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Among the coins appropriated by Ruding to King Henry III. 

 is a short-cross penny of the York mint, obviously of the same 

 type as those now decided to belong to the second Henry, 

 which bears the name of this raoneyer : ^ — 



Obv. HENRICVS REX 

 Rev. NICOLE ON EVE 



One specimen of a York penny of the same type is in the 

 cabinet of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society : — 



Obv. HENRICVS REX 



Eev. TONAS ON evr2 

 In this reign, for the first time since the Domesday Survey, a 

 notice of the officers of the York mint occurs in a contemporary 

 record. In the 33rd Hen. II. the sheriff of Yorkshire accounted 

 to the court of Exchequer for £226. 6s. 8d. for the Donum of 

 the city of York assized by the king's justices upon the men of 

 the city, not including the money ers. ^ 



A genuine coin of King Richard I. is not known to be in 

 existence, and it seems very probable that there was no coinage 

 during his reign.* An allusion to the York mint at this period 

 is contained in an entry on the records of the Exchequer, from 

 which it appears that for some default made by the moneyers, 

 they were fined one mark each.^ 



It cannot be doubted that money was coined in England 

 during the reign of King John, although the only known coins 

 struck by him are of the Dublin and Waterford mints. ^ In the 



' Ending, Vol. II., p. 305. 



2 Nicole and Tomas are the names of the moneyers upon two York pennies, 

 apparently of this type, described by Thoresby. Due. Leod., p. 351. The latter is 

 named as a York moneyer upon another specimen. Numism. Chron., Vol. X., p. 26, 



3 " Idem. Vicecomes redd. comp. de ccxxvi''- vi'- et viii*^- de dono civitatis Eboraci 

 assiso per justicias super homines ejusdem civitatis prseter monetarios." — Pipe EoU. 

 33rd Hen. II. Madox, p. 442. 



* Euding, Vol. I., p. 177. 



* "Everwich'scr'. Eann* de GlanTill' redd' comp'.— Et in defalta. yiii. Monetar*. 

 ▼iii. m." Pipe Eoll. 1st Eic. I., p. 75. 



« Numism. Chron. Vol. XIV., p. 7. 



