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

Catalogue of European Mints 143
there are only two dates, 1815 and 1830. Some of the later Farnesi or
Bourbons struck gold pieces of high values. There is an especially rare
double scudo of silver of Ottavio Farnese (1547-87), which fetched 370
lire in the Rossi sale, and a testone of the same Prince struck to commemorate
a splendid victory in 1553. A piastra of Turkish type was
struck for the Levantine trade by the last Duke but one, and was suppressed,
it is said ; only two examples existing. One sold at the Rossi
sale for 50 lire.
Passariano, or Passerano, a seigniorial fief of the Radicati, Counts of
Cocconati, i6th c. The territory was eventually ceded to Savoy.
Passau, Bavaria, a mint of the bishops in the early part of the i6th
c., and perhaps of the Counts of Passau and Weisskirchen. There are
batzen of 1516, 1518, 1522, etc. The thaler was struck down to the i8th
c.
Comp. Schlitz.
Pau-in-Bearn, one of the mints of the ancient Counts of Beam,
nth c. Coins of Henry IV., 1589-1610, were struck for Navarre here,
and perhaps also for Beam.
Pavia, a mint of the Gothic kings, 5th and 6th c,, of the Lombards
(whose capital it became), 7th c., and of the emperors, 8th-i3th c. There
is, belonging to this city, a gold tremissis of one of the Lombard kings,
7th c. Remedi Cat., 1884, No. 2124. In the I3th c. it was for a short
time a republic, and afterward became subject to the Visconti family
(1350-1464). There is a very rare gold siege-piece of 1524, with 1524
Ces. PP. Ob., struck on the occasion of the blockade by the troops of
Francis I. We have seen this also in silver. The Lombard kings
adopted on their denari the Christiana Religio type of Louis le De"bonnaire.
Pequigny, in the neighbourhood of Amiens, a barony which appears
from a charter of 1300 to have then enjoyed the right of coinage but no
;
money is known.
Pereiaslavi, an early Russian mint.
Pergola, one of the mints of Pope Pius VI. (1775-99). Only bronze
or copper money.
Perigueux, Dordogne, a mint of Philip le Hardi in 1280, and down to
the 1
5th c., when Charles VII. struck money there and at Dome.
Peronne, Dept. of Somme, the place of origin of an early denier with
Perronensis Mo.
Perpignan, cap. of the ancient Prov. of Roussillon, now dept. of
Pyrenees, a place of coinage under Arragonese auspices from the commencement
of the I2th c.,
and of municipal, as well as of regal, money.
It shared the destinies of Roussillon in being successively under Spanish
and French masters, each of whom governed the operations of its mint.
The civic currency seems to date from 1427 ;
the denominations authorised
by royal ordinances, 1427-1528, mention gros, half gros, deniers,
doubles, sanars, menuts, etc. But for general circulation we find as early
as 1349 pieces of higher value and imitations of the French ecu (for, the
latter with the A of the Paris mint reversed for difference. Perpignan
was also the seat of a Franco-Spanish coinage in 1642-55, consisting of a
sol, double sol, and menut, with Perpiniani Ville., or P. in the heart of
the cross. Another early mark was a double P. The mint seems to have
been closed in 1659.
Perugia, a republican mint in the I3th c., and from the time of Leo
X. to the end of the i8th c. an occasional one of the popes. See Cat.
Rossi, 1880, No. 3428, for a notice of the scudo struck in twenty-four