Arnaldes Public Deposited
The name given to a small base silver coin struck at Agen in Aquitaine, and supposed to obtain its name from Arnaldo I of Bonneville, who was bishop of Agen in the eleventh cen- tury. Poey d'Avant (ii, 143) ascribes its origin to Arnaldo de Rovinhan, bishop of Agen and the first to coin money there in 1217. The same authority (p. 145) cites an account of the year 1252 in which Ar- naldeses are mentioned as being of slightly less weight than the Italian coins of the same period.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)