[f. the name of the Duchy of Brabant. As applied to a coin, the word is a mistranslation of a passage in Hemingburgh (see first quot.), where Brabantium is not a sb., but an adj. agreeing with scaldingorum.] A term recently applied (in error) to a base coin of Flemish manufacture circulated in England in the 13th c.
[c. 1350. W. Hemingburgh, Chron. (ed. Hamilton), II. 187. Mercatores enim alienigenæ introduxerant in Angliam monetas … pessimi metalli, pollardorum, crocardorum, scaldingorum Brabantium, aquilarum … et aliorum diversorum nominum.]
1840. Ruding, Ann. Coinage, I. 201. These coins were … distinguished by the names of pollards, crocards, scaldings, brabants, eagles.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. 178. Scaldings, Brabants, Eagles.
