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

98 The Coins of Europe
tion-money between himself and the town, and in 1395 schillings and
pfenningen were struck here in consequence of a monetary treaty between
the Bishop, the Duke of Austria, the Count of Wiirtemberg, and the
Counts of Oettingen.
Dinan, Brittany, a mint of Charles de Blois, about 1341, during his
contest for the duchy, and of John IV. and V., Dukes of B., 1364-
1442.
Dinant, Namur, doubtless a place of local coinage, as well as an
occasional one of the Emperors of the West.
Disentis, Grisons, an abbatial mint, 1466-1729. Ab. Diser.
Dixmude, or Dixmuyden, Belgium, the seat
mailles with Dixm.
of an early coinage of
Doeblau, Reuss, the place of origin of a grosch with Mon. Nov.
Rvthenica Dol. 1 7th c.
Doemitz, Mecklenburgh, a mint of the Counts of Schwerin, destroyed
in 1689 by the Duke of Brunswick-Celle, on account of the coinage of
money of poor or false standard.
Dogliani, Piedmont, a mint of the Marchesi of Saluzzo, I4th c.
Dokkum (Docenga), W. Friesland, a Merovingian mint, and afterward
one used by the Counts of W. Friesland in the nth c.
Dole, Dept. of Jura, a mint in the diocese of Besanc.on, employed
by the Dukes of Burgundy, I4th c. Dola. At the end of the i5th,
and beginning of the i6th c. it was in the occupation for monetary
purposes of the Emperor Maximilian and the Archduke Philip. There
are pieces of Philip II. of Spain, 1589, struck here as Count of
Burgundy.
Dome, a mint of Philip le Hardi, who acquired the place by purchase
in 1 280 for strategical purposes in connection with Dordogne. The mint
was at the Mont de Dome or castle, and was still in existence in 1438,
when the French recovered the position from the English, and was
employed by Charles VII.
Donauwbrth, Bavaria, the seat of an early coinage. A silver bracteate
belonging to this town is cited by Schulman, xi. 628 and there
; is
a thaler of 1545 with the bust of Charles V.
Donnas, Sardinian States, a mint of the Counts of Savoy, 1338-
1400.
Dordrecht, or Dort, a mint of the Counts of Holland in the i3th c.,
and of the Dukes of Burgundy as Counts of Holland in the i5th. It
was at a later period one of the regular mints for the Dutch Indies,
and also struck money for the Batavian Republic (1795-1804): m.m.
a rose.
Dorsten, Prussia, reg. of Munster, a mint of the Archbp. of
Cologne, 1 7th c. Hellers in copper, with Nvmvs. Dvrst. or Cvsvs.
Durst.
Dortmund, Westphalia, a mint of the emperors and town from the
loth c. ;
and later, of the See of Cologne. Dortmond Mon. Nova Tremonien.
There are deniers of Otho III., and of Louis of Bavaria, 1314-
47, belonging to this place of course, with many others.
Douai, in Artois, a communal and seigniorial mint from the nth to
the 1
4th c. The distinguishing type of the branch found on the early
money may serve to associate with this place certain pieces in the Gaulish
series similarly marked. Gui de Dampierre, Count of Flanders, 1280-
1302-3, struck here an esterlin with Moneta Dovvay, and another with
Dvac. We learn that the municipality exercised at an early date a not