ASCENSION

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 3

It was also the name of a bra coin, which originally weighed one pound; but was subsequently reduced by various degrees at diffierent periods to half an ounce, in consequence of the gradual increase of the value of metu as compared with that of provisions and other nece aries, as civilisation advanced. Its value was a little more than three farthings of English money. [s. 106]