[143] Pertz, p. 85.
[144] Pertz, p. 114.
[145] Pertz, p. 116.
[146] Pertz, p. 72. Refusing to receive the new denarii must have meant as 12 to the solidus, for the new denarii themselves were heavier than the old ones, 32 wheat-grains instead of 28·8.
[147] Pertz, p. 494. Karoli II. Edictum Pistense, A.D. 864: Ut in omni regno nostro non amplius vendatur libra auri purissime cocti, nisi duodecim libris argenti de novis et meris denariis.
Illud vero aurum quod coctum quidem fuerit, sed non tantum ut ex deauratura fieri possit eo libra una de auro vendatur decem libris argenti de novis et meris denariis.
[148] Traité de Numismatique du Moyen Age, par Arthur Engel (Paris, 1891), vol. i. pp. 329-332.
[149] Sohm, in his preface to the Ripuarian law in Pertz, against his own former opinion, concludes that clause xxxvi. did go back to the sixth century, and was originally a part of the Lex (p. 188).
[150] See Richthofen’s preface to the Frisian Laws in Pertz, p. 631.
[151] They appear in the ‘Additio Sapientium,’ Tit. ii., clauses lxiii. and lxxviii.