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ROYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 15Mr. Bernard Roth, F.S.A., showed a rare gros d'argent ofHenry V, and two moutons d'or of Henry V and two ofCharles the Dauphin; also a series of ancient British andRoman coins and fibulae and a late Bronze Age torque foundat Peterborough.Mr. Henry Garside exhibited the new rupee of British Indiaof George Y.Mr. L. A. Lawrence, F.S.A., showed a large bronze plaquewith busts of Charles IV of Spain, his queen, and their sixchildren, which appears to be quite unknown.Mr. Lionel M. Hewlett read the fourth portion of histreatiseon Anglo-Gallic coins, which dealt with those struckby Henry V in Normandy. The earliest of these was probablythe rare demi-gros or guenar, which Mr. Hewlett considersmay have been struck at Caen, where Henry stayed for somemonths to organise the government of Normandy before pro-to Rouen. Immediately after the fall ofceeding to lay siegeRouen, Henry struck moutons in gold and gros in silver there.On September 25, 1419, he ordered that all coins struck forthe future should bear the letter H in the centre of the crosson the reverse. He opened a second Mint at St. L6 on April14, 1420. The mint of issue was designated in the mannerusual in France at that time, by placing a pellet under a certainletter of the legends. At first, Henry used the samemint-mark for Rouen as that adopted by Charles VI, butafter the opening of the mint at St. L6 he placed a pelletbelow the first letters of the legends to designate the RouenMint and below the second letters of the legends to designatethe St. L6 mint. The mouton with four fleurs-de-lis in theangles on the reverse which has been ascribed to Henry V onthe strength of Poullain's manuscriptshould be ascribed toCharles the Dauphin, who struck it at the mints of theDauphiny. (This Paper is printed in this volume, pp. 179-212.)