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

Catalogue of Eiiropean Mints 127
Massegra, the place of origin of a quattrino with Di Becca Ria in
three lines on rev. Cat. Remedi, 1884, No. 1778.
Matelica, Italy, 24 m. W.S.W. of Macerata, a place of papal coinage
under Pius VI. (1775-99).
Maubeuge, France, Dept. of Nord, formerly part of the county of
Hainault. It is 11 miles from Avesnes. There is a sterling of John I.,
Count of Hainault, 1289-1314, and of John II. D'Avesnes, struck here.
It was one of their mints.
Mauleon, the name (prior to 1736) for Chatillon-sur-Sevre, the seat of
a seigniorial coinage commencing about 1215, when Savary de Mauleon,
Seneschal of Poitou, was invested by Jean Sans Terre [John of England],
Count of P., with the right of striking money of the Poitevin standard.
The family subsequently merged in that of Thouars.
Mayence, or Maintz, a Carlovingian mint and one of the archbishops,
who, however, also struck money at Amoeneberg, Neustadt, Treysa,
Of etc.
the archiepiscopal series some of the earlier are bracteates of superior
work. The Florentine gold type was imitated here as at Cologne the
;
lily was perhaps acceptable as an emblem of purity and from the direct
Mayence : i kreutzer, i8th c. 3 pfenningen, 1760.
allusion to it in Scripture. In the last century copper pieces from i to 12
kreutzer, circular, oblong and octagon, were issued, and during the siege by
the French there was a coinage of necessity of 5, 2,
and i sols. The Emperor
Maximilian 1 1. accorded the right of coinage of florins to the Convent
of St. Alban here in 1578, with an ass as the arms and S. Alban. Martyr.
Meaux, Champagne, Dept. of Seine-et-Marne, a mint of the Frankish
Kings, 8th A c. denier d'or of Pepin le Bref, struck here, was sold at
Paris in 1885 for 955 fr. It was also an early episcopal mint, iith-i2th
c., and at one time at least in concert with the Counts of Troyes. The
money seems to have obtained credit and a considerable width of currency,
by virtue of conventions between the Bishop and neighbouring potentates,
as far back as the commencement of the loth c. The treaty of 1208 with
the Countess of Champagne gave the latter two-thirds, and the Prelate
one-third, of the revenue arising from the admittance of the Meaux coinage
into her territory. After 1225 the type seems to have been made
conformable to that of the nouveau provinois published in that year.
See Cat. Robert, 1886, Nos. 376-80. Meldis Civitas. The conventionmoney
Troyes reads Meldis Civita on obv., and
Trecasi Civi on rev.
Mccklenburgh Mints: Boitzenburg, Doemitz, Eutin, Gadebusch,
Gnoien, Grevermuhlen, Gustrow, Kroepelin (1325), Malchin, Marienche,
Marlow, Parchim, Ratzeburg, Ribnitz, Siilze, Tessin, Warnemunde,
Wittenburg : (M.-STRELITZ), Friedland, Neubrandenburg, Neustrelitz,
Schoenberg.