QUERY1850
Weights for Weighing Coins
By H. E.
A correspondent wishes to know at what period weights were introduced for weighing coins. He has met with two notices on the subject in passages of Cottonian manuscripts, and would be glad of farther information. In a MS. Chronicle, Cotton. Otho B. xiv.— "1418. Novæ bilances instituuntur ad ponderanda aurea Numismata." In another Cottonian MS., Vitell. A. i., we read— "1419. Here bigan gold balancis."