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

Catalogue of E^lropean Mints 141
Orciano, near Pesaro, a seigniorial mint of the Marchesi d'O. of the
Obizzi family, 1790-96.
Orgelet, Dept. of Jura, arrond. of Lons-le-Saulnier, a mint between 1341
and 1350 of Jean de Chalon, Comte d'Auxerre et de Tonnerre, who was
in France. In
disqualified by the regulations of 1315 from striking money
1363 his son was using the mint, and like his father was excommunicated
by the Primate of Vienne. Billon
only.
Orleans, doubtless a Merovingian mint, as one of the sons of Clovis,
on the division of the kingdom in 511, made it his capital. It was a
Carlovingian place of coinage and one of Eudes, 987-98. A piece of
24 sols of Louis XV., 1767, was struck here, and one of the same value of
Louis XVI., 1787.
Ortenburg, Austria, the seat of a coinage of thalers, etc., 1636, of
Cardinal Wiedmann, Count of O.
Ortona, Naples, a mint of Joanna II., Queen of Naples, 1414-35 of the
;
town, 1459-60; and of Charles VIII. of France, 1495. Charles struck a
cavallo here with (on rev.) Orto?ia Fidelis R\egi\ F\ranciceY\
Orvieto, Papal States, a communal mint from 1341 to 1354, and the
place of origin of a bolognino with Vrbs Vetvs and V. in field between
three stars on obv., and on rev. Sea. Maria.
Osnabriick, Hanover, the mint of the bishops and chapter, I2th-i3th c.
The distinguishing symbol is a wheel. There is a curious series of
pfennigen and deniers in copper of a later date, with their multiples, appertaining
to the See and town, including a piece of 9 pf.
A thaler of Leopold
I., 1693, was struck there ;
and money of necessity appeared in 1633.
Ostend, the home of a denier of the I3th c. with a full-faced bust of
St. Martin and Ostd.
Otterndorf, a mint of the duchy of Lauenburgh, 1 7th-
1 8th c. Danish
money was struck here in 1830.
Oudewater, S. Holland, besieged and burned by the Spaniards in
1575, the place of origin of money of necessity in tin issued at that time.
We have met with a piece of 40 stuivers.
Oye, Kasteel van, or Castle of Oye, Brabant, an occasional or special
place of coinage of Marie de Brabant (1371-90).
Paderborn, Pruss. Westphalia, a seat of urban and episcopal coinage
from the I3th c., with interruptions, to the i8th.
Padua, the seat of a tolerably extensive coinage of the republic, I3th-
I4th c., and of the Carrara family down to the commencement of the
Padua: Francesco II., 1388-1406. Copper.
1 5th, when the city and territory were annexed to Venice (1405). The
aquilino, carrarino, and grosso carrarese in silver, and some exceedingly