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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4498301, member: 10461&quot;]These are a tiny bit bigger than a US quarter but not as big as a half dollar, as I recall.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the &quot;gros&quot; name indicates (it literally means &quot;large&quot;), they&#039;re a bit larger in diameter than the typical medieval penny-sized stuff (and other even smaller bits of hammered silver) that circulated at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll have to measure It when I get It.&nbsp; It has been a few years since I owned the last one, and this new one won&#039;t be here for some time.&nbsp; Transatlantic Customs in a time of quarantine? Yikes.&nbsp; I fully expect to be waiting a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to comparable denominations, I believe the English <i><a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/gpxpZfYpufkRAy5JzxnI" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/gpxpZfYpufkRAy5JzxnI" rel="nofollow">groats</a></i> of the same time period were roughly equivalent.</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t tell you what kind of buying power they had in their time.&nbsp; That&#039;s an intriguing question worthy of some research.&nbsp; At a wild guess, I would imagine one coin <i>might</i> have been a daily wage for some common folk?&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to try to find out about that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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