Social Impact
- The Angel was such an iconic coin that many English pubs were named after it. The Angel Islington is one of these; and the Angel tube station station was named after the pub.
- The angel was the coin given to those who came to be touched for the disease known as king's evil; after it was no longer coined, medals, called touch-pieces, with the same device, were given instead.
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