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their subjects by debasing their own currency, but did not like them 
to be robbed by foreigners, and very stringent laws were passed in 
England to prevent these coins from being imported. No man was 
to bring more with him than sufiicient for his necessary expenses, 
nor land elsewhere than at Dover, Sandwich, Southampton, or St. 
Botolph’s, London, unless he could prove that he had been driven 
by stress of weather to some other port. The practice of counter¬ 
feiting the English sterling seems only to have ceased when the petty 
States of the Low Countries merged into the Duchy of Burgundy in 
the fifteenth century. No. 2 is a coin of John Duke of Brabant, 
having on the obverse a head copied from that of an Edward, and the 
legend Moneta Beijxellei ; on the reverse in the field I. Dux; 
round the edge De Beabaxtie. The first of the Dukes of Brabant 
who bore the name of John succeeded in 1261, and he had two 
successors of the same name, the third having died in 1355. As no 
number is joined to the name we do not know to which of them to 
assign this coin; it is probably the second or the third. No. 3. 
Three coins of Graucher de Ohatillon, Count of Porcien, Neufcha- 
teau and Ive in Lorraine. The legend on the obverse is GtAlch. 
Comes Poeo. ; on the reverse Moxet. Nova Yve. Where Yve was 
is not certainly known. It is supposed to have been on the Moselle. 
Nova probably stands for Neufchateau; in Latin, Nova Castra. 
Galcher succeeded to his dominions in 1313, and died in 1329, 
between which dates these coins fall. No. 4 are two imperfect 
coins of William, Count of Namur. There were two of this name ; 
the first succeeded in 1337, the second in 1390. We see therefore 
that this whole class belongs to the time of our Edwards. Besides 
those which were issued from known mints and bore the titles of 
known rulers, there are many which seem to have fictitious names. 
Such is No. 5, which has the usual head of an Edward with the 
the legend on the obverse Haxs Dxs de Soxek; on the reverse 
Moxeta Delise. Hans, the vulgar German for John, would be a 
singular designation of a prince on his coin, and Sonek, of which 
he is said to be lord, is unknown. So is the meaning of Delise. 
In the Numismatic Journal (xiii. 67) there is a communication from 
Professor Thomsen, of Copenhagen, giving an account of the 
discovery of coins in Denmark, closely resembling the long-cross 
pennies of Henry III,, but with such variations as to render it 
improbable that they can have proceeded from an English mint. 
They seem to show that the practice of imitating the English coin 
prevailed even before the Edwards. 
