See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. See also:

• LAT

Lat. obsidium, a siege)  , the "sitting down" of an See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army or military force before a fortified See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place for the purpose of taking it, either by, See also:

• DIRECT

direct military operations or by starving it into submission (see FORTIFICATION AND SIEGECRAFT) . A See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• COIN
• COIN (older forms of the word are coyne, quoin and coign, all derived through the O. Fr. coing, and cuigne from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

coin is known as a " See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege-piece." These are coins that were struck during a siege of a See also:

• TOWN

town when the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary mints were closed or their issues were not available . Such coins were commonly of special shape to distinguish them from the normal coinage, and were naturally of rough workmanship . A See also:

• COMMON

common shape for the siege pieces which were issued during the See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• REBELLION

Rebellion was the See also:

• LOZENGE (from the Fr. losenge, or losange; the word also appears in Span. losanje, and Ital. losanga; perhaps derived from a word meaning a stone slab laid on a grave, which appears in forms such as Provencal lousa, Span. losa, the ultimate origin of whic

lozenge . A noteworthy example is a See also:

• SHILLING

shilling siege-piece struck at See also:

• NEWARK
• NEWARK (NEWARK-UPON-TRENT)
• NEWARK, DAVID LESLIE, LORD (1601-1682)

Newark in 1645 (see TOKEN See also:

• MONEY

MONEY) .