Citations:dernier

English citations of dernier

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   • 1848, The Numismatic Chronicle, volume 10, page 105:

     A recital in the words of this statute, may not be deemed uninteresting to our purpose: "Roll's Office, Stat. 3, Edw. IV., No. 39, 1463. It being enacted by a Parliament held at Drogheda, Ann. 38. He. Vi., that the gross [i.e. the groat], the dernier, the demi-dernier, and the quadrant should be struck within the castles of Dublin […]

   • 1867, W. A. Browne, The Merchants' Handbook, page 11:

     The money used in keeping accounts prior to the introduction of the present system was the livre, with its subdivisions, the sou and the dernier.

   • 1977, The Numismatist, volume 90, page 7354:

     The denominations, initially, were for the fractional amounts lacking in the "assignat" issues. Even so, some of these "billets" were issued in the livre denomination, the highest being the 3 livre note. The lowest denomination was the 6 liards (dernier).

   • 1988, Michael S[cott] Kimmel, “Absolutism and Its Discontents in France, 1624–1643”, in Absolutism and Its Discontents: State and Society in Seventeenth-century France and England, New Brunswick, N.J., Oxford: Transaction Books, →ISBN, endnote 2, pages 90–91:

     The dernier denominations indicate the rate of return to the crown as well as the potential interest rate to the buyer. A rente sold at dernier 14 would yield 14 times the face value of the rente to the crown over the course of its term. The higher the dernier, the lower the interest rates and the larger the return to the crown over the long term. A reduction from dernier 14 to dernier 2, therefore, indicates that the crown would both be paying larger interest payments and receiving less in return over the lifespan of the rente.