W. C a r e w H a z l i t t Coinage of the European Continent

Bevern,
Catalogue of European Mints 85
and all bear W. for Wratislav. The silver three-thaler of 1621, and the
~1\ groschen of 1645, both money of necessity, were perhaps struck here.
Brieg. See Leignitz-Brieg.
Briesach, doubtless the place of mintage of two varieties of square
silver pieces of 40 batzen struck during the siege by the Swedes, 1633.
Briton, or Brillon, Prussian Westphalia, a mint of the Archbp. of
Cologne. Briglon Civitas.
Brindisi, a mint of the Norman Dukes of Apulia and Kings of Sicily,
iith-i2th c., and of the Emperors of Germany (i 2th- 1 3th c.). Silver,
billon, and copper were struck here. Among the last were the follaro
and its divisions.
Brioude, Haute -Loire, an unimportant mint in the loth-nth c.
Deniers with Brivites or Bitirites.
Brixen, Austria, a seat of episcopal coinage from the loth c., and of
that of the Duke of Kaernthen or Carinthia. The Emperor Charles IV.
authorised Barnabo Visconti of Milan to strike money here. Arms a
lamb. The coinage lasted down to the end of the last c.
Broech, Limburg, Brabant, probably the seat of a limited coinage of
the feudal lords, of whom there was a rather long succession.
Bromberg, or Bydgost, a Polish mint, 1650. Bidgostiens.
Brosse-Huriel, Bourbonnais, the seat of a seigniorial coinage, I3th-
I4th c., principally copied from the types of Chartres, Dreux, Limoges,
and Brittany. De Uriaco, Brucie, Dns. Hur. or Hurce., Vicccomes
Brucie, etc. These coins were struck both at Brosse and at Huriel.
See Brassac.
Bruges (Bruggia), a mint of Charles le Chauve, of Charles the Simple,
of the Counts of Flanders from the I2th c., of the Dukes of Burgundy, of
Charles V. of Germany, etc., down to the i8th c. There is a schelling of
Maria Theresa, 1750, struck here : m.m. a lis or a small lion.
Briigg, or Bruck, cant, of Aargau, a place of coinage in the 1 3th c.
coins known.
Brtmswick, the seat of urban coinage from 1345, although the brae-
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Brunswick :
J thaler, palm-tree type.
teates with a lion may very well be prior to the grant of Duke Magnus in
that year. The earliest thalers belong to the close of the I5th c. There
is a rare one of 1636 with Mone. Nova. Reip. Bnmsvicensis. Seejutiuslocser
in Cat. of Denom. Brunswick may be regarded as the general
mint of the plentiful coinage of the branch of B. Wolfenbiittel, although
some of the Dukes have employed Wolfenbiittel itself.
Brunswick Mints :
(minor) Blankenburg, Catlenburg,
Dannenberg, Gandersheim, Gittelde, Grubenhagen, Harburg, Henrichstadt,
Helmstadt, Herzberg, Hitzacker, Lauterberg, Moisburg, Salzderhelden,
Scharnebeck, Walkenried, Weende, Winsen.