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Testoon

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tes·ton  (tstn) also tes·toon (t-stn)
n.
1. A 16th-century French silver coin.
2. An English coin stamped with the image of Henry VIII's head. In this sense, also called tester3.

[French, from Italian testone, augmentative of testa, head, from Late Latin, skull, from Latin, shell.]


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The diagonal starting in the south-east reads TESTOONES (OED teston, testoon 1, 1617 quote), a name used of a number of European silver coins from about 1450 for 100 years or so.
Surely it's the inalienable birthright of every true-born Brit to save up his groats for pox lotion from the apothecary, or hand over a silver testoon in his local tavern in exchange for a flagon of malmsey or a butt of sack (or, for that matter, a sackbut).
 
 
 
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