I would like to thank everybody who assisted me with this, through the List and also off List. My conclusion is that these symbols that look like "e"s to me are "x"s and not "c"s. I should have described the swirl at the top of the curve. Without seeing them I can well understand them being considered "c"s (100). The legacies I mentioned in my first post are therefore "xs" (10 shillings) xxs (20 shillings) and xxxxs (40 shillings). Ian Bartlett