Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
Lowering the value of a currency by replacing precious metals with cheaper base metals like copper.
Debasement appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Elizabethan Society and Exploration and The Problem of the Poor.
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