Sixain Öffentlichkeit Deposited
A French billon coin which, as its name indicates, is the sixth part of the silver Franc or Ecu.
It appears to have been originally struck by Louis XII (1498-1515) of the type of the Douzain (q.v.), and under Francis I (1515-1547) there was issued a Sixain a la Salamandre, having this animal on the obverse, with a crown above.
Mailliet (xlii. 9, xi. 14, and Suppl.) cites an obsidional Sixain struck during the French occupation of Barcelona, 1640- 1652, and another for the similar occupation of Gerona, in 1648. All of these pieces are of copper.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)