was a square piece of gold coin, commonly valued at 30 pence; and mancua was as much Mancancel as a mark of silver, having its name from mancus, being coined with the hand. Leg. Canut. But the manca and mancusa were not always of that value; for sometimes the former was valued at six shillings, and the latter, as used by the English Saxons, was equal in value to our half-crown. Manca sex solidos equatorem. Leg. H. r. c. 69. Thorn, in his chronicle, tells us, that mancusa est pendula duorum solidorum et sex denarii; and with him agrees Du Cange, who says, that 20 mancae make 50 shillings. Alanca and mancusa are promiscuously used in the old books for the same money.

MANCANCEL or MANCHENEL. See Hippomane.