piefort

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A form of piedfort — An unusually thick coin, often exactly twice the normal weight and thickness of other coins.

Scrabble 12

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nounpiefort (plural pieforts)

plural pieforts

  1. alternativeAlternative form of piedfort (“unusually thick coin”).

    Comparison with struck samples, either pieforts or actual coins of known authenticity, was the best basis for identifying coins of forgers' mints or imitative coins from other state mints.

    2003, Joel Mokyr, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, volume 5, page 549

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