piefort
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]piefort (plural pieforts)
- Alternative form of piedfort (“unusually thick coin”)
- 2003, Joel Mokyr, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, volume 5, page 549:
- Comparison with struck samples, either pieforts or actual coins of known authenticity, was the best basis for identifying coins of forgers' mints or imitative coins from other state mints.