perpyne

perpyne
† perpyne Obs.
Corrupt form of porcupine, applied to a French gold coin issued c 1507 by Louis XII, and bearing the device of a porcupine. It weighed about 53 grains troy, the contemporary English sovereign being 240 grains.
in Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII, IV. i. 660.

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