Atchison

English

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Etymology

The coin is named after Atkinson, a coin minter in the beginning of James VI reign.

Proper noun

Atchison

  1. A surname.
  2. A city, the county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, named after David Rice Atchison.

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Noun

Atchison (plural Atchisons)

  1. (historical) A former Scottish copper coin, coated with silver, worth four bodles, eight Scots pennies, and two-thirds of an English penny.
    • 1683, George Meriton, A York-ſhire Dialogue, In its pure Natural Dialect As it is now commonly Spoken in the North parts of York-ſshire, York:  […] John White,  […] Richard Lambert, page 12:
      There not worth an Atchiſon; nor Twenty ſike.

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