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Show Leather Money end Msdsls. On the authority of Benecs, a curl ous account Is given of a period when leather, appropriately stamped to give II a certain legal character, wan the only current money. At a com piirutlvely recent dule In the annala of Kurope, Kredlib the Hecond, who died in 12G0 at the siege of Mllsn. paid bis troops with leather money Nesrly the ssme clrcumstsnce oc curred In England during the greet wsrs of tha bsrons. In the course of 1350 King John, for the rsnson ol bis roysl person, promised to psy In Edward the Third ot fcuiland three millions of gr" cowus. In order tn till his oblln . Joha wss reduced to the mortifying necessity of psylns the eipenses of the palsce in leslher money. In the center of each piece there being a little bright point ol silver. In thst rslga Is found the origin ol the burlesque honor of conferring "s lesther medal," King Joha having used them when he wished to confer honor upon some nobleman. llsr per s Weekly. |