Extract from [Rice] Vaughan's <hi rend="italic">Coin and Coinage</hi> [1615] on French currency changes 1417-23 Unknown c. 118 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 After 13 April 1696, c. 118 words. MINT 19/2/146, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/2/146 After 13 April 1696 England English Unknown Hand MintAnalyses of Foreign Coin and Exchange Rates Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott
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the English being in possession of the greatest part of france Charles the seventh having no other means to maintain the wars did from the yeare 1417 to the year 1423 raise the Silver by several degrees from 8 livres 9. sols the mark to 360 livres the mark so as the money was raised in 6 years above 40 times the value of what it was before — the truth is evident by records of the Mint, tho scarce mentiond by the Chronicles — that wchwhich is as strange as the rest is, that at one instant the money was reduced against to 7 livres 10 Sols the mark Vaughan of Coin & Coinage p. 231.