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

Catalogue of European Mints 149
ably in the' interval between the death of Charles VIII. in April 1498,
and her remarriage to Louis XII., that Anne, daughter and heiress of
Francis II., struck the remarkable piece dated 1498, where she describes
herself as Queen of France and Duchess of the Bretons, and does not
name a consort. Rennes was also a mint of the Valois and Bourbon
lines. The ecu of 6 livres of Louis XV., 1723-5, was struck here. It is
to be suspected that the numismatic records of the city are very fragmentary.
Retegno, a mint of the ancient family of Trivulzio, 1676-1726. There
is a rare ducatone doppio of Antonio Teodoro, 1676. All the larger
pieces have the effigy.
Rethel, subsequently Retel-Masarin, Ardennes, an important and
prolific mint of the Counts of R. and Counts of Flanders, etc., certainly
prior to 1315, as it is cited in the Monetary Regulations published in that
year, down to about 1629. The Champagnois types were at first imitated
here. The domain underwent many changes of ownership, and finally
came into the possession of Cardinal Mazarin. Regitestensis, or Reg.
Estensis. In 1357 we find Louis of Maele, Count of Flanders, striking
here, and elsewhere within the county, moutons d'or and gros d'argent.
Arches and Chateau-Renaud were two fiefs
appurtenant to this property.
Reuss Mints :
Dochlau, Gera, Greiz, Schleiz.
Reuss, a principality in Upper Saxony, now divided into Reuss-Greitz
and Reuss-Schleitz. But there were formerly five divisions : Reuss-
Greitz, Schleitz, Gera, Ebersdorf, and Lobenstein. All have struck
money in silver and copper. There is a grosch of Heinrich III. of
Reuss- Ebersdorf, 1814. Heinrich XX. of Reuss-Greitz struck a doppel
thaler in 1851, which is now rare. Of the Lobenstein branch there are
pfenningen, etc., of Heinrich LXXIL, thus establishing the antiquity at
least of the family.
Revel, on the Gulf of Finland, the seat of a small civic coinage in the
1
3th and I4th c. under Polish control. There is the schilling in silver
and the solidus. It also struck some of the money (thalers, marks,
schillings, and ferdings) of the Order of Livonia. There is one of
Heinrich de Galen, 1555, with Hinr : De : Galen : Ma : Li : and on rev.
Mo : No : Revalie : \ 5 5 5.
Rheda, Prussia, in the regency of Minden, formerly the seat of a local
coinage, chiefly, if not exclusively, of copper money
multiples. There is a 4-pfenning piece of 1659.
the pfenning and its
Rheina, Prussian Westphalia, the source of pieces of 1602 of 12, 8,
and 6 pfenningen, some counter-marked with a bar with three stars
and 3 R.
Rheinau, Cant, of Zurich, a place of coinage of bracteates formerly
ascribed to Fishingen.
Rheinmagen, Prussia, Lower Rhine, a mint of the Kings of Austrasia.
Rio.
Rhenen, Utrecht, 17 m. from Amersfoort, one of the mints of the
Bishops of Utrecht in the I4th-i5th c. There is a very rare gold ducat
of Frederic of Blankenheim, Bp. of Utrecht, 1394-1422, with Rijnesis.
Rhenen was also a mint of the See of Cologne, 1 5th- 1 7th c.
Rhenish Mints (minor)
:
Brauweiler, Bretzenheim, Biidelich, Biiderich,
Biirnheid, Cloten, Saint -Corneli, Cranenburg, Dahlen, Dinslaken,
Duelken, Saint-Eucharius (Treves), Geilenkirchen, Gerresheim, Gladbach,
Hammerstein, Hechingen, Herzogenrade, Heyde-Terblyt, Junkheit, Kern,
Lennep, Liessem, Malmedy, Manderscheid, St. Maximin, Mere, Miinster-