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

Catalogue of European Mints 105
1314) the people had bestowed on their sovereign the byname of Le
faux monnoyeur.
French Mints under the regency of the Ditke of Bedford (1422- 53) :
Amiens, Arras, Auxerre, Chalons, Dijon, Macon, Le Mans, Nevers, Paris,
Rouen, Saint- Lo, Saint-Quentin, and Troyes.
French Mints under the Bourbons. The number remained much the
same under Henry IV. and Louis XIII. Louis XIV. added to the places
of coinage, but in 1772 Louis XV. suppressed thirteen.
French Mints tinder Charles X., Cardinal de Bourbon, 1589-98 :
Paris, Rouen, Lyons, Bayonne, Riom, Dijon, Troyes, Amiens, Bourges,
Nantes, and Dinan. At the two last-named places the Due de Mercoeur
struck money in the name of Charles, eight years after his death, in 1590.
The coins are not very uncommon, though nearly always poor.
French Mints under the First Republic, etc. The R. at first closed
several, but reopened some. Napoleon created new ones, both within
and outside the normal French frontier, which were suppressed in
1814. In 1848 there were only three Paris, Bordeaux, and Strasburgh.
In 1853 and 1857 Lille, Lyons, Marseilles, and Rouen were temporarily
reopened to carry out more expeditiously the new copper currency.
Freyberg, capital of the Erzgebirge mining district, a mint of the
Ernestine branch of the Dukes of Saxony.
Fribourg, Baden [Switzerland], a mint established in 1120 under
imperial authority. There is money of the Counts of F. and of the town
from the I4th c.
Fribvrg Brisgavd or in Bris.
Friedberg. See Burg-Friedberg.
Friedland, a mint of Albertus von Waldstein or Wallenstein, 1626-34.
Comp. Giistrotu. Wallenstein describes himself on his thalers as Duke
of Mecklenburgh, Friedland, and Sagan, and Count of Rostock and
Stagard.
Friesach, Diocese of Salzburg, a common mint of the See and of the
Dukes of Carinthia.
Frinco, Piedmont, a seigniorial fief of the Mazzetti family, i6th c.
There is a copper sesino with (on rev.) Mon. Ord. M. DD., and Minerva
seated to 1.
Froberg, Alsace, the mint of the ancient Counts of F.-Montjoye,
whose chateau, built in the I3th c., was destroyed in 1635. Here were
doubtless struck the few pieces of money which have occurred with
Frober or Frobe. One coin reads Mo. No. Frobe 1554, and on rev.
Ferdinan. Re., and is
supposed to be a specimen of the currency decried in
that year in common with that of Vauvillers and Franquemont.
Fugger, Suabia. See Augsburgh.
Fulda, Hesse-Cassel, the place of coinage of the ancient abbots from
the nth c., and of the abbot -bishops down to 1796. Adalbert III.
(d. 1814) coined from the church plate in 1796, during the French occupation,
thalers of two types and a thaler ;
one of the former has a fine
portrait. The See was secularised in 1802, and the sovereign and territorial
rights became vested in Hesse-Cassel. There is a \ thaler of
1828 before us, in which the Duke is described as Landgraf of Hesse
and Grand-Duke of Fulda.
Fuligno, or Foligno, Spoleto, a seigniorial fief of the Trinci family,
1
5th c., and probably their mint, as it was of the popes from Eugenius IV.
to Pius VI. De. Fvligineo, or Fvligneo. A quattrino was struck here,
or at least bears the name of the place, during the ephemeral Roman
Republic (1798-99).