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Jack

Evidently the name of an early Irish coin, as at a Parliament held at Drogheda, 1460, for the reformation of the Irish coinage, it was decreed among other measures that " the coin called the Jack be hereafter of no valne and void." See Ending (i. 278).


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