Blancus

Lat. [from Fr. hlanc, white.] In old law and practice. White, as paper or parchment is, where there is no writing or other mark upon it; otherwise called alhus. See Album hreve. Hence the modem term blank. Plain or smooth, as silver money that has no impression, or from which the impression has been worn.* Solidi hlanci; blank or plain shillings.

ZMon.Ang.^b2.

Triginta lib. sterlingorum hlancorum; thirty pounds of blank sterlings.

2 /<i. 31.

This was undoubtedly a kind of silver money that was paid by weight, and not by tale, or count, \quod vel ad ponderis valorem persolutum est, vel non in pecuniis numeratis.) Spelman, voc.

Blanca.

Whether hlancus denotes that this money was uncoined, or that it was coined money worn smooth, does not clearly appear. The words hlanc and blank occur in English dictionaries in the sense of a piece of metal in the mint ready for coining. Bailey's Diet.