Excerpt from An Essay on the Roman Denarius and English Silver Penny: Shewing Their Derivation From the Greek Drachma of AEgina, to Which Is Appended a List of English and Scotch Pennies, From the Conquest, Together With Their Several Degrees of Rarity, an Account of the Farthings of Queen Anne, a List of Books, Necessary To When the following essay was commenced, I had no idea of introducing the extraneous matter which has, I fear, been very incongruously put together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."