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Tester :: Tester (n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston..

Oysterling :: Oysterling (n.) A young oyster.

Sharock :: Sharock (n.) An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents..

Jacobus :: "Jacobus (n.) An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I..

#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..

Easterling :: Easterling (a.) Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling..

Sesterce :: Sesterce (n.) A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents..

Pound :: Pound (n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value..

Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was ?243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180..

Scudo :: Scudo (n.) A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70..

Stives :: Stiver (n.) A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth..

Louis D''or :: Louis d'or () Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640..

Fosterling :: Fosterling (n.) A foster child.

Noble :: Noble (n.) An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61..

Thaler :: Thaler (n.) A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents..

Pardo :: Pardo (n.) A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts..

Crown :: Crown (n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents..

Tael :: Tael (n.) A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third..

Testone :: Testone (n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents..

Easterling :: Easterling (n.) A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.

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