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Quakers' Money

A name given to those crowns of Queen Anne which bear plumes in the angles of the cross formed by the shields. The plumes indicate that the silver was obtained from Welsh mines, and the Company by which the mines were operated comprised among its members many persons of the Society of Friends.


Source: Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)
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