Remarks on some conjectures, relative to an antient piece of money endeavouring to prove it a coin of Richard, the First King of England of that name. [electronic resource] : Shewing the improbability of the notion therein advanced; that the arguments produced in support of it are inconclusive, or irrelative to the point in question. In which will be particularly and largely consider'd the standard and purity of our most antient English coins, the state of the mints, and the beginning or sterling, from the public records. To which will be added, an epistorlary dissertion on some supposed saxon gold coins read before the society of antiquaries: By Geo. North, A.M. Fellow of the society of antiquaries, London.