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twenty pounds

twenty pounds is a coin.

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Works and catalogued output

Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds. is dated [1872?] and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection catalogues 5 works under this heading.

Context

The circumstances in which twenty pounds stands.

Tax no. ten. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-three. An act, for apportioning and assessing a tax of twenty thousand and eight pounds, seventeen shillings and six pence .. is dated 1793 and held by Wellcome Collection. Ne plus ultra!! : now exhibiting : the Spanish Goliah, the celebrated Senor Joachim Eleizegui, from the Basque provinces of Spain ; twenty-three years of age - stands 7 feet 10 in. weighs 450 pounds!. is dated [1850] and held by Wellcome Collection. [Leases] for twenty-one years, to be granted of an estate, capable of such improvements, that the lessees will be thereby entitled to the gain of six-hundred pounds for the payment of one is dated 1727 and held by Wellcome Collection. An exact numerical list of all the tickets drawn prizes of twenty pounds in the state-lottery for 1765 is dated 1765 and held by Wellcome Collection. twenty pounds is recorded as made of silver.

Authority records

The identifiers under which twenty pounds may be traced in institutional catalogues.

twenty pounds is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q15637798.

Catalogued works

4 works under this name are catalogued by Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1727 to 1872.

Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds., dated [1872?], held by Wellcome Collection. An exact numerical list of all the tickets drawn prizes of twenty pounds in the state-lottery for 1765, dated 1765, held by Wellcome Collection. [Leases] for twenty-one years, to be granted of an estate, capable of such improvements, that the lessees will be thereby entitled to the gain of six-hundred pounds for the payment of one, dated 1727, held by Wellcome Collection. Ne plus ultra!! : now exhibiting : the Spanish Goliah, the celebrated Senor Joachim Eleizegui, from the Basque provinces of Spain ; twenty-three years of age - stands 7 feet 10 in. weighs 450 pounds!., dated [1850], held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 118 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

4 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

“Twenty Pounds Will Marry Me”: The Family, Daily Life in 18th-Century England, 1999. TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS A YEAR FOR AN OPERATING SURGEON., The Lancet, 1850. Family, Gender, and Sexuality: “Twenty Pounds will Marry Me”, Daily Life in 18th-Century England, 2017. Twenty Pounds of Bullshit in a Ten Pound Bag, The Greatest Sedition is Silence, 2003.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 16 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 9 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1727[Leases] for twenty-one years, to be granted of an estate, capable of such improvements, that the lessees will be thereby entitled to the gain of six-hundred pounds for the payment of one is dated 1727 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  2. 1727[Leases] for twenty-one years, to be granted of an estate, capable of such improvements, that the lessees will be thereby entitled to the gain of six-hundred pounds for the payment of one (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1765An exact numerical list of all the tickets drawn prizes of twenty pounds in the state-lottery for 1765 is dated 1765 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  4. 1765An exact numerical list of all the tickets drawn prizes of twenty pounds in the state-lottery for 1765 (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 1793Tax no. ten. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-three. An act, for apportioning and assessing a tax of twenty thousand and eight pounds, seventeen shillings and six pence .. is dated 1793 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  6. 1850Ne plus ultra!! : now exhibiting : the Spanish Goliah, the celebrated Senor Joachim Eleizegui, from the Basque provinces of Spain ; twenty-three years of age - stands 7 feet 10 in. weighs 450 pounds!. is dated [1850] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  7. 1850Ne plus ultra!! : now exhibiting : the Spanish Goliah, the celebrated Senor Joachim Eleizegui, from the Basque provinces of Spain ; twenty-three years of age - stands 7 feet 10 in. weighs 450 pounds!. (Wellcome Collection).
  8. 1872Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds. is dated [1872?] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  9. 1872Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds. (Wellcome Collection).

Connections

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Broader subject

  • commemorative coinTerminology

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Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    3. Twenty Pounds, Brownie, 1931

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “twenty pounds”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Twenty Pounds of Bullshit in a Ten Pound Bag, The Greatest Sedition is Silence, 2003

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS A YEAR FOR AN OPERATING SURGEON., The Lancet, 1850

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 2 articles naming twenty pounds.

    open access index · Unverified

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  6. 6.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 118 works naming twenty pounds.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  7. 7.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q15637798: twenty pounds

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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