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

1 1 6 The Coins of Eiirope
place struck money of necessity during successive sieges in 1543, 1610,
and 1621.
Jupille, Lie"ge, Belgium, the place to which deniers of the I2th c. with
Amannd V. are referred.
Kachin, an early Russian mint.
Kaschau, a Transylvanian mint under the independent waiwodes.
C. or C.-M.
Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, the source of a grosch of 1535.
Kempten, Bavaria, an abbatial mint in the I3th c. for bracteates, and
subsequently for thalers and florins of gold (i6th-i7th c.) also
;
the seat
of an urban mint from 1501, or earlier. In that year the town struck
money for Ulm. The bracteate series bear Princeps Campidvnh., or
Hildegardis Regina the town pieces usually have Campidone.
;
Kessenich, Limburgh, the seat of the coinage of Jan I. de Wilde,
Seigneur of Brunshorn, consort of the Lady of Kessenich. The money
has Kesse.
Kief, or Kiev, on the Dnieper, the first known capital of Muscovy, and
the seat of the ancient Archbishopric of St. Sophia, was doubtless the
place of coinage not only of certain silver coins of Byzantine type, but of
a limited gold coinage emanating from the archiepiscopal See. Existing
specimens of the money appear to belong to the loth c., and bear
Grand-duchy of Kief: denarius, loth c.
Christian types and primitive legends. They closely resemble the
Servian and Bulgarian currency of the Iith-i2th c.
Comp. Moscow and
Nijny- Novgorod.
Kiel, Holstein, one of the mints of the Counts of H. (Moneta
Kilensis}. Others were Oldesloe (Odesto) Rendsburg, Flensburg, Neustadt,
Rangau, Ploen, Steinbach, and Itzehoe. The last is distinguished
by the words, Cimtas Etsccho, and by three towers ;
the rev.
reading Moneta Holsacie.
usually
Kinroy, Limburgh, the seat of the coinage of Jan II., Seigneur of
Kessenich.
Klarcntsa, Glarentza, or Chiarcnsa (anc. Cyllene), in the Morea, and
probably the mint of the Princes of Achaia, of the Villehardouin family,
of the Kings of Naples, of the house of Anjou, etc., down to the i6th c.
This principality was originally given to Geoffrey de Villehardouin about
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205 at the partition of the lower empire after the Fourth Crusade.
Knijphausen, Oldenburg, the mint of the independent seigneurs or
heeren of that place down to the present century.
Koepnik, Brandenburgh, a mint of the Margraviat of B., I2th c.
Kolpina, an early Russian mint.
Kolyma, a Russian mint under Catherine II.
Konigsberg, Prussia, a place of coinage of Frederic II. of Prussia
(1740-85).