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

Catalogue of European Mints 123
Rupert or Rutrecht I.
(1353-90), with Monet. Lvddem,and the portrait of
the Count facing. On the reverse occurs R-vpertvs Dvx, and a shield
of the Bavarian palatinate.
Lttxemburgh, capital of the ancient county, afterward duchy and
grand-duchy, and a mint of the rulers of this territory from the I2th c.
Wenceslas I., Emperor, King of Bohemia, and Duke of L. 1353-83,
entered into a convention with 'the See of Treves, as we see that other
rulers of L. had done elsewhere, for a common currency, indicated on a
gros with the arms of the two powers quartered, and the legend
Wincel\ Dvx Et. Boemvd. Archps. Socii. 1st. Monete. F'ce Lvcebvrg. In
1795 a piece of 72 asses was struck here during the siege by the French.
Luzille, a mint of the Emperor Charles IV. as Count of Luxemburgh,
1346-53.
Lvov, Poland, a mint of Casimir the Great, 1333-70.
Lyons, the seat of a mint of the Kings of Burgundy and Austrasia,
Pepin, Charlemagne, Charles de Provence, Charles le Chauve, etc., of
the German Emperors (as Kings of Burgundy), and of the bishops and
archbishops down to 1413, as well as of the Counts of Lyons, who, with
those of Feurs and Roanne, held the territory of the See in the loth
c. A denier of Conrad I., 911-18, was struck here. The privilege to the
archbishops dates from 1157, and this coinage lasted probably until the
royal mint was at length transferred, at the end of the I5th c., hither, pursuant
to an ordinance of Charles IV. so far back as 1413-14. Several
specimens of the money of the Counts of Lyons exist. A denier tournois
of Henry IV., 1607, and a piece of 3 deniers of Louis XVI., 1791, belong
here. There is
money of necessity of 1 793. Comp. Bechevilain.
Maccagno, Como, a mint of the Mandelli family, I7th c. There is a
gold zecchino, with the titles of the Emperor Ferdinard II. on rev., and on
obv. Mon. N. Ai>. lac. B.C. Mac. Com. 7'a. Q.M.F., and the portrait of
Giacomo Mandelli.
Macerata, States of the Church, 21 miles from Ancona, the place of
coinage of the original feudal lords from the I3th c., and of the popes
from Boniface IX. to Pius VI. An early grosso bears the standing figure
of St. Julian.
Macon, a mint of Philip
I. of France (1060-1 103), of the Dukes of Burgundy,
and of the Valois dynasty down to the end of the I5th c.,
when it
seems to have been removed to Lyons, whither an ordinance of Charles
IV., 1413-14, had already directed its transfer. Misconus, Mutiscon, etc.
Madrid, the mint of the later Kings of United Spain down to the
present time. The money struck for currency in Mexico, South America,
and other colonial possessions, with or without the Pillars of Hercules,
belongs here for the most part but
; many, as the peso of Ferdinand VII.,
1810, coined at Mexico, and that of 1821, coined at Zacatecas, etc.,
formed an exception. M. crowned. Comp. Mexico.
Maele, between Bruges and Ghent, now an insignificant village, but formerly
a feudal fortress, and the seat of Louis of Crecy and his son Louis of
Maele, Counts of Flanders (1322-84). It was perhaps here, as well as at
Bruges, Ghent, or Malines, that his extensive coinage in all metals was struck.
Maesijck, Belgium, Prov. of Limbourg, 14 miles S.W. of Ruremonde,
a mint of the See of Liege in the i6th A c. \ ernestus of Ernest of
Bavaria, 1582, belongs here.
Maestricht, or Vroenhof, one of the seats of the Merovingian coinage
under the moneyer Adalbertus, who also worked at Utrecht, Durstede,