Note 631 — BOOK THE FIFTH. (continued 2)
Reading edition
“The statement of Commines with regard to the leather money current in France after the payment of the king’s ransom appears to me very erroneous; as it is certain that the king, on his return from England, coined so much gold and silver money that the silver mark was worth only five livres, and the gold mark sixty livres; which would have been impossible if there had been so great a dearth of those two metals in France as Commines would have us believe.” Leblanc’s Traité des Monnaies, p. 277.