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

Stern :: Sterling (a.) Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense..

Sterling :: Sterling (n.) A certain standard of quality or value for money.

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..

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..

Florence :: Florence (n.) An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value..

Maximilian :: Maximilian (n.) A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter..

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

Sequin :: Sequin (n.) An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value..

Rial :: Rial (n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth..

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

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..

Starlit :: Starling (n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.

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

Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from ?340 to ?396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels..

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..

Sterling :: Sterling (a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used..

Ora :: Ora (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling..

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

Sovereign :: Sovereign (n.) A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86..

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