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in the tenth century Athelstan made a law to secure uniformity of coinage throughout his dominion, and this enactment specified the number of moneyers in the principal towns. Shrewsbury possessed one such moneyer, proving that while it reached a certain point of importance it did not rank among towns of the first class (this number was later raised to three in the reign of Edward the Confessor; and all through the period from Athelstan to Henry III,

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