Names: and Their Meaning

Why is it called Lloyd's? Why the Green Man? Leopold Wagner traced the origins of everything the Victorians had a name for — countries, tavern signs, flowers, wines, London streets, nicknames and battles — and found a story behind nearly all of them.

Money

3 pages in this part of Names and Their Meaning.

Money

HE word Money owes its existence to Moneta, one of the surnames of Juno, in whose temple the first coinage of the Romans took place. Mint…

Money: England

The Thistle-crown of James VI. of Scotland (James I. of England), value four shillings, was so called because it had a rose on one side and…

Money: Stock

Bullion, so called from the Latin bulla, rounded by art, is the technical description of gold and silver rounded into bars, and stored in…

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