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Old French coin
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teston
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Teston is a village in the civil parish of Barming in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. Teston may also refer to: Teston, Ontario , Canada Teston d'argent , a currency used in France during the Middle Ages
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n. (context obsolete English) A tester; a sixpence.
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Tester \Tes"ter\, n. [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a covering, and cf. Testone , Testoon .] An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen ...
Usage examples of teston.
In between eating, he scowled at Piedar Dooly who, in between serving, scowled at the bleached and resurrected ollave, blazing with undeserved riches that would have dazzled the Pope, who lay on his back before the jumping wood fire, his tabard off, his head sunk in a cushion, juggling absently, over and over, one-handed, with a crown and some testons.