Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Anglo-Saxon money of account employed in England from the ninth century onward. It was equivalent to 30 pence, or one eighth of the pound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver
mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
gold coin used in Medieval Europe - noun An equivalent
unit ofmonetary account
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Examples
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In the former case the mancus was the usual unit of calculation.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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They might have flung me a mancus or two, however.
Ivanhoe 2004
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And when I had learnt it as I could best understand it, and as I could most clearly interpret it, I translated it into English; and I will send a copy to every bishopric in my kingdom; and on each there is a clasp worth fifty mancus.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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Offa's time a new gold coin, the _mancus_, resembling in standard the Roman solidus (about 70 grains), was introduced from Mahommedan countries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The mancus was equated with thirty pence, probably from the time of its introduction.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The use of silk (_seoluc_) and the adoption of the mancus (see below) point to communication, direct or indirect, with more distant countries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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This was effected at the Synod of Celchyth (787), at which Offa granted the pope a yearly sum equal to one mancus a day for the relief of the poor and for lights to be kept burning before St. Peter's tomb.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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They might have flung me a mancus or two, however.
Ivanhoe 1892
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These are the intellectual qualities which make up the physician, without any one of which he would be _mancus_, and would not deserve the name of a complete artsman, any more than proteine would be itself if any one of its four elements were amissing.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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They might have flung me a mancus or two, however.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
hernesheir commented on the word mancus
One for the Wordniks who list arcane terms for coins and currency.
December 11, 2010