The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jacobus \Ja*co"bus\, n.; pl. Jacobuses. [See Jacobite.] An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.
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Wikipedia
A Jacobus is an English gold coin of the reign of James I, worth 25 shillings. The name of the coin comes from the Latin inscription surrounding the King's head on the obverse of the coin, IACOBUS D G MAG BRIT FRA ET HI REX ("James, by the grace of God, of Britain, France and Ireland King").
Isaac Newton refers to the coin in a letter to John Locke:
'' The Jacobus piece coin'd for 20 shillings is the : part of a pound Troy, and a Carolus 20s piece is of the same weight. But a broad Jacobus (as I find by weighing some of them) is the 38th part of a pound Troy.''
These correspond to masses of 9.10 and 9.82 grams respectively, making the broad Jacobus slightly heavier.
Jacobus is a masculine first name, which is a variant of Jacob. The name may refer to:
Jacobus was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He won the 1883 Preakness Stakes.
Usage examples of "jacobus".
Look at these woodcuts,--the first anatomical pictures ever printed, Doctor, unless these others of Jacobus Berengarius are older!
He attended many services, and after he had familiarized himself with some of the writings of Father Jacobus, and taken to heart some of their talks, he became fully aware of how phenomenal this Christianity was -- a religion that through the centuries had so many times become unmodern and outmoded, antiquated and rigid, but had repeatedly recalled the sources of its being and thereby renewed itself, once again leaving behind those aspects which in their time had been modern and victorious.