A name given to a silver Penny imported from Luxemburg into England, in the reign of Edward III and forbidden in the latter country.

Langland, Piers Ploughman, 1377 (xv. 342), says, "In lussheborwes is a lyther alay ( ? alloy) and yet loketh he like a sterlynge." Chaucer, in the prologue to the Monk's Tale (74) states "God woot no lussheburgh payen ye;" and Cowell, in The Interpreter 1607, mentions Lushoborow, "a base coine vsed in the daies of King Ed. the 3. coined beyond Seas to the likenes of English money." Ruding, Annals of the Coinage of Britain. 1840. (i. 222) states that in 1346 "many merchants and others carried the good money out of the realm, and brought in false money called Lusshebournes, which were worth only eight shillings the pound or less."