MONARCHICAL COINS.
| GOLD. | |||
| s. | d. | ||
| A louis d'or is twenty four livres french, or | 20 | 0 | English. |
| SILVER. | |||
| A grand ecu, or six livre piece, | 5 | 0 | |
| An ecu, or three livre piece, | 2 | 6 | |
| The vingt quatre sols piece, | 1 | 0 | |
| A douze sols piece is twelve pence french, or | 0 | 6 | |
| A six sols piece is 6d french, or | 0 | 3 |
COPPER MIXED WITH SILVER.
A deux sols, or two pence french, and one penny english, is nearly the size of our sixpence, but is copper, with a white or silverish mixture, twelve of these make a vingt quatre sols piece, or one shilling english.
They have also another small piece of nearly the same size and colour, but not so white, and rather thinner, which is one sol and a half, three halfpence french, or three farthings english.
COPPER.
A sol is like our halfpenny, value one penny french, or a halfpenny english, twenty-four of these make an english shilling.
A deux liard piece is half a sol french, or a farthing english.
A liard is a farthing french, and of the value of half a farthing english.
NEW COIN.
A thirty sols piece, is a very beautiful and convenient coin, worth one shilling and three pence english, having a good impression of the late king's head on one side, and the goddess of liberty on the other; it was struck in the early part of the revolution.