angel-noble
[i.e. noble, bearing the device of an angel: cf. spade-guinea.]
The fuller name of the gold coin angel (see angel n. 6); it being really the representative in value (6s. 8d.) of the earlier noble, coined by Edward III, but with a device adopted from the Fr. angelot; while the new nobles, called rose-nobles, or rials, passed for 10s.
| 1474 J. Warkworth Chron. (1839) 4 Also he [made] angelle noblys of vjs. viijd. 1552 in Bury Wills (1850) 142 To haue for his payunes too aungell nobles. 1587 Holinshed Chron. III. 893/2 In this season the angell noble was iust the sixt part of an ounce Troie. 1686 Cerem. for King's Evil in Reader (1866) 3 Mar. 227/2 The King..crossing the sore of the sick person with an Angel Noble. [1834 Penny Cycl. II. 14/1 When first introduced, the angel was rated in value at 6s. 8d., and being of the same value as the noble, was sometimes called the noble angel.] |