Abstract
THE versatile curator of the Hull Museums has collated in this volume the notes on coin scales and weights—mainly with reference to the unique collection in his charge—which have appeared during recent years in the Numismatic Circular, together with a few addenda. Mr. Musham has added a descriptive catalogue of the comprehensive series of English coin weights collected by him and acquired by the Hull Corporation. The result should be of interest to the collector and the antiquary. As a reference work, however, its usefulness would be much enhanced by the addition of a general index and a bibliography and by a careful editorial revision. One would expect the scales to be grouped according to their principles of construction whereas the fundamentum divisionis that has been selected is the structure and decoration of their cases. The descriptions of the various scales are disparate and contain much needless repetition. Dates are sometimes assigned without any apparent evidence; the balance described under No. 151 is given the date 1765, but the patent for it was not granted until 1774; The word “crescentric” is persistently used for “crescentic.”
Money Scales and Weights.
By T. Sheppard J. F. Musham. Pp. vi + 221. (Hull: A. Brown and Sons, Ltd.; London: A. Brown and Sons, Ltd.; Spink and Son, Ltd., 1924.) 10s. 6d.
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Money Scales and Weights . Nature 115, 868 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115868b0
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