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mancus Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmæŋkəs|
Forms: 1 mancus, 7–9 mancus. pl. 1 mancses, mancsas, mancusas, mancos, 2 manke, 7–8 mancuses, 7–9 mancusses.
[OE. mancus masc., = OS. mancus (glossing bazanticum, aureus), OHG. *manchus, acc. pl. manchussa (glossing solidos, aureos, philippos). The med.L. form mancu(s)sus occurs frequently in documents belonging to Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, and in one example in Du Cange it means some kind of ornament worn by a woman.]
An Old English money of account of the value of thirty pence.
The statement sometimes made that mancus was also used to denote a unit of weight is based on misinterpretation of certain passages in which the word occurs.
811in Haddan & Stubbs Councils III. 570 Pro ejus larga pecuniarum remuneratione hoc est centum et viginti VI. mancosas. c1000ælfric Gram. xlviii. (Z.) 296 Fif peneᵹas ᵹemaciað ænne scylling and þrittiᵹ peneᵹa ænne mancus. c1000― Saints' Lives xxxiii. 132 Heo..nam mid hire fiftiᵹ mancsas. a1100Will of Wulfgat in Birch Cart. Sax. (1893) III. 653, xx. mancses goldes. a1200Moral Ode 70 And þe ðe mare ne mai don do hit mid his gode þonke Alse wel se þe þe haueð golde fele manke. 1614Camden Rem. (ed. 2) 200 Thirty of these pence..made a Mancus, which some think to be all one with a Marke... They reckoned these Mancuse, or Mancus both in golde and siluer. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. iv. §1 He sent his Holinesse 120 Mancuses for a Present. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. I. ii. 41 He made a perpetual grant of three hundred mancuses a year to that see. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xv, ‘These dog-Jews!’ said he... ‘They might have flung me a mancus or two’. 1848Lytton Harold i. iii, What in mancusses and pence Clapa lacked of the price. 1860Hook Lives Abps. (1869) I. v. 241 When a person of high rank was buried..a mancus of gold..was paid. 1875Jevons Money viii. 71. 1887 C. F. Keary Coins, Ags. Ser. Introd. 34 The Mancus (pl. Mancusas) or Mancos... It was a coin of denomination in use upon the Continent quite as much as in England, and may have been imported into this country from abroad. 1899Grueber Handbk. Coins Introd. 9. |