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

146 The Coins of Europe
and during some considerable time an active Portuguese mint for colonial
purposes.
Prisrend, a fortress in Servia in the Middle Ages, and the place of
coinage of pieces bearing Prisrenh in Slavonic characters, with a seated or
standing figure of Christ.
Provins, Seine-et-Marne, a mint of the Counts of Champagne, and on
some pieces associated with Sens. Pruins, or Privins Casto. This was
a seat of long and extensive coinage, but the types are mostly uninteresting
and degenerate. The portrait of the earlier coinage becomes
toward the second half of the I3th c. what was known as the peigne or
comb, through the ignorance or carelessness of the engraver. A corrupt
type of the Roman interregnal money, struck in the name of the Senate,
was executed at P. in the second half of the I2th c.,
and follows the lines
of the original, except that its origin is betrayed by the peigne champagnois.
Prussian Mints (minor)
:
Dirschau, Koenigsberg (closed in 1798),
Malborg, Marienburg, Memel, Oliva, Samland, Schlochau, Thorn. (PROV.
OF POSEN) Bromberg, Fraustadt, Gnesen, Kroeben, Lissa, Posen,
Zuin. (PROV. OF SAXONY Circle :
of Magdeburg) Alsleben, Armstein,
Aschersleben, Barby, Croppenstadt, Falkenstein, Frosa, Gardelegen,
Giebichenstein, Hakeborn, Halle, Oschersleben, Osterburg, Osterwick,
Reinstein, Salzwedel, Schoenebeck, Seehausen, Seligenstadt, Stassfiirt,
Stendal, Tangermiinde, Ursleben, Wegeleben, Werben, Wernigerode,
Wolmerstadt. (Circle of Merseburg} Artern, Beichliningen, Belgern,
Bibra, Bornstadt, Coelleda, Eckartsberga, Eilenburg, Eisleben, Freiburg,
Heringen, Herzberg, Hettstadt, Kelbra, Landsberg, Liebenwerder,
Mansfeld, Memleben, Merseburg, Miihlberg, Naumburg, Nebra, Querfurt,
Rabensvvalde, Rennstadt, Sangerhausen, Schraphau, Skenditz, Stolberg,
Torgau, Wettin, Weissenfels, Wiehe, Wittenberg, Zeitz. (Circle ofErfurt}
Bleicherode, Clettenberg, Ellrich, Erfurt, Helligenstadt, Lipprechtrode,
Lohra, Miihlberg, Miihlhausen, Nordhausen, Ringleben, Salza, Schleusingen,
Thamsbriick, Trefurt, Vargula, Weissensee.
Pskow, an early Russian mint. Comp. Fraustadt.
Puy, or Le Pu_y, Haute-Loire, the seat of a long series of episcopal
coinage from the loth to the I4th c., the original grant having been made
to the 28th Bishop about 920. The right was contested by the Vicomtes
de Polignac on two different occasions, when the See paid 25,000 and
20,000 sols as a compromise. Deniers, oboles, and pougeoises, or ob.
Podiensis.
Puy-Saint-Front, Perigord, a mint of the early Counts, in association
with the town, from the loth c. There were periodical dissensions on the
subject of this joint, currency.
Puygiron, Dept. of Drome, a mint of the Counts of Valentinois and
Diois of which we hear in 1327 through the condemnation of some of the
workmen to be burned alive for uttering false money.
Quedlinburg, Prussian Saxony, the seat of a convent in 928 and of a
conventual or abbatial coinage in 994 by virtue of a grant from Otho III.
There are bracteates, groschen, thalers, ducats, and copper money,
usually bearing a figure of the Abbess, standing with a book, a lily, etc.,
in her hand. In the I5th c. the Abbey made some concessions to the
town.
Qvitveli, Gvddelbv., Qvidelgebvr., Cvedellnbv, Qvidelige, etc., are
readings on pieces. The ladies superior of this establishment were often
personages of high rank. There is a thaler of Dorothea of Saxony, lady-