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

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of the grancUduchy of Baden from 1803 to 1826. We have a rare
Mannheimergulden or f thaler of 1608, with a portrait of Friedrich IV.,
Count Palatine of the Rhine, on obv. and the arms on rev. There is also
a double grosch of 1792 of the jubilee of Carl Theodor of Bavaria.
Manopello, Naples, a place where Charles VIII. of France granted to
Count Pardo Orsini, 1495, the right of coinage.
Manosquc, Basses -Alpes, Mannesca or Mannasche, a mint of the
ancient Counts of Forcalquier,
1 2th -i
3th c. There is an early denier,
evidently attributable here, with Manu .'. Esca and on rev. Moneta,
perhaps copied from the type of Le Puy.
Mans, or Le Mans, cap. of the ancient province and countship of
Maine, twice held by the Crown of England a mint of
;
Charles le Chauve,
if not of Louis le Debonnaire, subsequently of the Bishops under royal
authority, and from the nth to the i5th c. of the Counts. In 1425,
Henry VI. of England struck money here gold salutes, grandes and
petites blanques, and deniers tournois.
Mansfeld, Prussian Saxony, the seat of the mint of the Counts prior
to the division of the house into branches. Bracteates of the I3th c.
with a figure on horseback, holding a standard, which developed in the
1 6th into the type of St. George and the Dragon. There is a grosch
of 1574 of this evolutionary character, and from that date a continuous
series of money in gold and silver all bearing the same symbol. The
early money exhibits, besides the horseman, the arms of Mansfeld (a
lozenge) and somewhat later pieces a crowned lion with Mansf.
Mantes-sur- Seine, the place of origin of a piece struck by Philip I.
after 1081 with Medantenne.
Mantua, a place of coinage of certain anonymous bishops (iath c.),
of the republic ( I3th c.), with Virgilivs on obv., and of the Gonzaga family,
Mantua :
Virgilius type, i3th c.
Captains, Marquises, and finally Dukes of M., down to the middle of the
1 8th c.
Comp. Casale. The scudo d^oro and the double or doppio were
coined under Guglielmo Gonzaga (1550-87) and his successors ;
and there
is more than one variety. Ferdinando Gonzaga (1612-26) struck pieces