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Hams

Also known as Boars' Feet, is the common name for a variety of copper coins, struck by the Gallic city of Nemausus. They are of the shape of a ham, and their exact use has not been determined. Conf. the exhaustive treatise on this subject, by Goudard, Notice sur les Medailles dites Pieds de Sanglier, Toulouse, 1880-1893.


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