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

1 1 2 7Yie Coins of Europe
Jacob, Lauenrode, Meppen, Miinden, Miindburg, Neustadt (near Rubenberg),
Nienburg, Osterode, Otterndorf, Peim, Reinhausen, Richenberg,
Stade, Steuerwald, Verden, Wienhausen, Woelpe, Wunstorf.
Hapsal, or Gapsal, Esthonia, a mint of Schleswig-Holstein and the
See of Oesel, I4th-i6th c. Hapsal.
Harderwijk, Gueldres, a mint of the Counts and Dukes of Gueldres,
and of the Bishops of Utrecht, 1 4th- 6th 1 c. There is a groot of
Arnould van Homes, Bishop of Utrecht, 1371-79, with Hdeivig. A
thaler or gulden of Willem II., Duke of Gueldres, 1538-43, describes him
as Duke of Juliers, Gueldres, CleVes, and Berg, Count of Mark, Zutphen,
and Ravensberg, and Seigneur of Ravenstein. There is an interesting
denier of Eleanor, daughter of Edward II. of England, and guardian
of her son, Raynald IV., Duke of Gueldres, with the English leopard,
belonging here. Later, this place was a mint of the Batavian Republic
and for the Dutch East Indies.
Hasselt, N. Brabant, near Lille, a mint of the mediaeval Seigneurs of
Laon and of the Bishops of Lidge, and a place of feudal and general
coinage from the I2th or I3th to the i6th or i7th c. Copper money was
struck here.
Hasselt, Overijssel, a mint of the Bishops of Utrecht and of the
Spanish rulers of the Netherlands. There is a i philippus of 1563 and
similar pieces down to 1
593 struck here in the latter series.
Hattingen, a town in the dukedom of Cldves and county of Mark,
near the Roer, only known at present from coins struck there. It
was the mint of Engelbert and I. II., Counts de la Marck, I4th
A c.
small piece of Adolf, Count of Cleves, 1417-48, reads on rev. Moneta
Hattenege.
Hatton-Chatel, Verdun, a mint of the early Bishops of Verdun.
Hadoniscastrv. See Verdun.
Hedel, a mint of the Seigneurs of Berg or s' Heerenberg, in the i6th c.
Heinsberg, Brabant, the seat of an independent lordship and duchy
from the 1
3th- 1 5th c., and the source, no doubt, of a considerable series
of billon and silver bearing the name. Comp. Gangelt.
Helmershausen, Saxe- Weimar, an early mint of the Bishops of
Paderborn and the Archbp. of Cologne.
Hcndrickcn, Loos, Flanders, a mint of Jean, Comte de Loos, 1256-80.
Enideri.
Henneberg, Saxe-Meiningen, the probable place of origin of some of
the coins of the Counts of Henneberg. But comp. Ilmenau.
Henrichemont, previously called Boisbelle, Dept. of Cher, France, the
princely fief of Maximilien de Bethune, Due de Sully, the Minister of
Henry IV. of France, after whom it was named. The principality consisted
of several properties, which had been independent and autonomous
from the Middle Ages, and struck money Chateaumeillant, Borne,
Boisbelle, Orval, etc. The right of Sully was recognised by Louis XIV.
in 1644. In 1654 the Duke had a mint with a regular staff.
Heresburg, a mint of the Abbey of Corvei or Corvey, Prussia, loth-
I2th c.
Herford, Westphalia, an early seat of local coinage and of conventionmoney
between the Abbess and the town. There is a mariengroschen
without date with Man. Domi. Et Cii'i. Herv. : and a piece of 12
pfennigen, 1 670, reads Stadt Herford.
Hermanstadt, a special mint of the Prince of Transylvania, while the
town was beleaguered by the Turks in 161 1. A piece, denominated Grossus