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Jacobus. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Jacobus Pl. -uses, (7 -us, 7–8 -usses, -us’s). [a. L. Jacōbus James: see JACOB.] The current (but not official) name of an English gold coin, struck in the reign of James I.

1   Originally issued in 1603, under the name of the Sovereign, and current for 20s. In 1604 there was a second issue known as the Unite, which being 1/10 lighter, the value of the Sovereign rose to 22s. In 1612 The current value of the Unite was raised by statute to 22s., and the earlier piece rose to 24s.

2 1612.  in Crt. & Times Jas. I. (1849), I. 197. The prince having entreated him to provide him £1000, in so many Jacobus pieces.

3 a. 1618.  Raleigh, Obs., in Rem. (1661), 200. The English Iacobus goeth for three and twenty shillings in Merchandizing.

4 1678.  Marvell, Lett. to Mayor of Hull, Wks. 1776, I. 346. The Jacobus’s cost twenty-three and eight-pence a piece.

5 1754.  Richardson, Grandison (1781), II. xx. 216. In the second purse were 115 Jacobus’s.

6 1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xv. III. 585. His salary was … eight thousand Jacobuses, equivalent to ten thousand pounds sterling.

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