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ANGLO-GALLIC COINS. 207" Blans fais a Caen, au soleil au bout de la croix $sont a 3d. 16gr."Henry invaded Normandy on August 1, 1417. Hetook Caen on September 4 following. At that date theFrench regal coins were struck under the ordinance ofMay 10, 1417, and the silver coins " etaient frappeessur le pied 40 e ." That is the " titre " of this coin.If Henry struck coins for his troops at Caenimmediately, he would probably have followed the typeand weight of those th$n current there. This demigrosis of a pure French type, without any modificationwhatever.This coin was, therefore, probably struck at Caenin September, 1417, immediately after its captureby Henry, and is the first piece issued by him inFrance.I think we may acceptthe Comte de Castellane'sreasoning. It will be recollected that the type of thequart de gros ordered to be issued bythe ordinanceof September 25, 1419, was to be "similar to thatof the demi-gros." The quart de gros struck in pursuanceof that ordinance is similar in type to this demigros,but with two very important modifications. Thefirst is,that it bears an h in the centre as ordered by theordinance, and the second is that in two of the angleson the reverse are a crown and a leopard, and the othertwo angles are empty.It might be argued that this demi-groswas struckat Kouen before September 25, 1419, but if thiswere the case, we should expect to find the crown andleopard in the angles of the reverse, as on the quart degros, whereas we have two fleurs-de-lis and two crowns.The gros struck before September 25, 1419, also has