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210 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.commencement of the legend is very thin ;and on thesecond the X is omitted from the word REX, both faultsbeing due to lack of space.The five examples weigh together 71*87 grains, anaverage of 14-37 grains. The full weight was 20'31grains, or 200 to the mark.The mansois was current for two deniers tournois, thatis, the same as the coin usually known as the DoubleTournois. M. le Comte de Castellane makes some interestingremarks on the use of the term mansois in hisarticle on the denier tournois of September 25, 1419,cited below (p. 212). He tells us that during thefeudal period a denier of the coinage issued by theCounts of Maine was worth two deniers of Anjou ortwodeniers tournois, their equivalent. Consequently, onecould say that a denier of Maine, or mansois, was in facta double tournois. Although in 1419, the coinage ofmoney in Maine had been stopped for a long time, onesees the tradition preserved intact. The ordinance ofSeptember 25, in fact, employs most judiciously theword mansois to indicate a double tournois, while itterms a petit denier the coin which was toone denier tournois.be current forSecond Issue. November 20, 1421.Rouen.1. Obv. *h iR0X KMGL : :hetRQS : FRfiHC(. Stops,pellets ; pellet under 1st letter of legend.Leopard, crowned, passant guardant to 1.,fleur-de-lis above ;the whole within a.beaded inner circle.ROMS : Dm B6(He(DiaTV. Stops^pellets; pellet under first letter of legend.