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

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The Coins of Europe
Fumes, W. Flanders, a mint of Maximilian, Arch-Duke of Austria and
Count of Flanders, transferred from Bruges in 1489.
Furstenburg, Germany, now divided between Baden, Wiirtemburg,
etc. ; the presumed seat of the coinage of the independent princes down
to 1806.
Gadebusch, Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, a mint of the Dukes of Mecklenburgh,
1542-1622.
Gacsbeek, Brabant, prov. of Lennick-Saint-Martin, one of the mints of
the Dukes of Brabant ;
and it may be the place indicated under the form
of Quaecbccke on money of Arnould D'Orey, Lord of Rummen (1331-64).
Gaeta, Naples, an autonomous mint in the nth-i2th c., and subsequently
one of the Norman Dukes of Apulia, I2th-i4th c. Civitas
Gaieta. It was subsequently a temporary place of coinage of Pius IX.
during the Roman Revolution of 1848-49. We have met with the
zecchino and scudo (in two varieties) struck in copper, 25 and 12^ soldi,
20 baiocchi in silver, and 3, 2, and I baiocchi in copper. G. crowned
with the holy gate, tiara, and keys.
Gangelt, Prussia, in the regency of Achen, the place of coinage of a
groschen of Thierry von Heinsberg.
Gap, Hautes-Alpes, an episcopal mint, iith-i3th c. Vapiensis, or
Vapincensis.
Gaveren and Elsloo, Belgium, names mentioned on coins of the I4th-
1
5th c., struck by Adrian, Seigneur of G. and E. Some read Adrianvs
De Gaveren Do.
Gazzoldo, or Gazuolo, 12 m. W.N.W. of Mantua, the apparent place
of coinage of a quattrino of Pope Sixtus V. (1585-90), with portrait to 1.
on obv., and Sixtus. V. P. Ma., and on rev. St. Francis kneeling to 1.,
and Co. Gazzo. In Cat. Remedi, 1884, No. 1436, notice is given of a
sesino of the Ippolito family (1591), with a figure of St. Francis kneeling
to 1. on rev.
Gembloux, Belgium, Prov. of Namur, the seat of an abbey. There
are early deniers.
Gendringcn, Berg, a mint of the Seigneurs or Counts of B., I4th-
I7th c.
Geneva, Genf, a Merovingian mint, a place of coinage for the bishops,
uth-i5th c., for the counts, and for the city and canton. The earliest
episcopal money is of 1017. A denier of Bp. Friedrich (1031-73) reads
on obv. Geneva Civitas, and on rev. Frederics. Eps. The seigniorial
money was struck at Annecy in and after 1356
it usually reads Comes
;
Gebennensis. There was a regular issue of small gold pieces from the
middle of the i6th c. and of pistoles in the i8th, and of silver and billon
money down to the establishment of an uniform system a [few years ago.
Like some of the other cantons,
it
produced in the last and present
century large pieces both in gold and silver the triple pistole of 1771
and the lo-franc piece in silver of 1851. There are copper pieces struck
here in 1590 during the war with Savoy, reading Monnaie pour les
soldats de Geneve; 12, 6, and i sols.
Genoa, an imperial mint under the Hohenstaufen dynasty, and the
place of coinage of the bishops and the republic. Some of the earliest
types of the danaro are of small module. From the I2th c., while under
imperial suzerainty, Genoa produced a copious and sumptuous succession
of money in gold and silver. The former coinage consisted of the
genovino d'oro, its divisions and its multiples, which in the I7th c.