mancus การใช้

• Like all flounders, Peacock flounders, " Bothus mancus ", have excellent adaptive camouflage.
• "Erigeron mancus " is a short perennial herb rarely more than 7 centimeters ( 2.8 inches ) tall, producing a woody taproot.
• ""'Unio mancus " "'is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
• It is sometimes known as the "'peacock flounder "', a name also given to the closely related " Bothus mancus " from the Indo-Pacific.
• The 4.33 g ( 0.15 oz ) mancus, worth about 30 silver pennies, is only the eighth known Anglo-Saxon gold coin dating to the mid to late Anglo-Saxon period.
• :: : Well, to go by Stenton, 223, the mancus was derived from gold coins of the Kaliphate, and Offa's adoption of it shows that he wanted to facilitate commerce with Arab traders.
• The 4.33 g ( 0.15 oz ) mancus, worth about 30 silver pennies, is only the eighth known Anglo-Saxon gold coin dating to the mid-to-late Anglo-Saxon period.
• The "'Peacock flounder " "'( Bothus mancus ) " is a species of changes its colors to match its new surroundings, and then finally ( bottom right ) buries itself in the sand, leaving only the eyes protruding.
• I also wondered what the relation between a mancus and a dinar was, but I haven't found out : Stenton is vague about it, and the Wikipedia article on mancuses suggests that they are somewhat the same ( in which case, why the different name ? ).
• The article tells us that Offa agreed to send 365 mancuses a year to Rome, but without telling us about them, and they are interesting ( when I came to the first mention of the word " mancus ", I had to look it up; not everyone will want to ).
• A dominant currency may be used directly or indirectly by other nations  for example, English kings minted gold mancus, presumably to function as dinars to exchange with Islamic Spain; colonial powers sometimes minted coins that resembled the ones already used in a distant territory; and more recently, a number of nations have used the US dollar as their local currency, a custom called dollarization.