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

156 The Coins of Europe
Saint-Venant, near St. Omer, one of the places of coinage of the communal
mailles, formerly spread over so large a portion of Flanders.
Vnent, or Vnaento.
Saint-Waast, near Arras, an abbatial mint in the nth c., and one
employed by Robert le Frison, Count of Flanders, 1073-93.
Comte d'Artois, 1250-1302, struck a denier here with Vcdaste.
Robert II.,
Saintc- Severe, Bourbonnais, a fief of the house of Brosse-Huriel, and
apparently a place of independent coinage in the I3th c. There is a
denier with Vgo. Vicecomcs. and Sancta Severn.
Saintes, Charente-Infdrieure, a mint of Louis VII., King of France
(1137-80). Steinas.
Salamanca, a Visigothic mint. Salmantica.
Salc-au-Comtc, Perigord, a mint of the Counts of P., 1322.
Salerno, the place of origin of some of the coinage of the Dilkes of
Beneventum, and probably a principal mint of the duchy of Salerno and
of the Norman kingdom of Sicily and Apulia under Robert Guiscard and
his successors.
Salics. See Saint-Julien.
Safins, Dept. of Jura, an ancient town, fortified in 1411 by the Duke
of Burgundy. In 1257 the Comte de Chalon, a relative of the Duke by
marriage, had a mint here. The place was besieged by the French in
'477) !595? 1636, and 1668.
Salle-le-Roi, Poitou, a mint and hunting-seat of Richard I. of England
about 1190 in the neighbourhood of Les Essarts, where there were
silver mines. In 1784 a discovery of this
and a denier of Richard was found there.
place of coinage was made,
Salm, Lorraine and Luxemburgh, a principality, of which the two
branches have struck money from the I3th c. to 1782. The arms are
gules 2 salmons arg., surrounded by 4 croisettes : arg. There is a
demi-gros a 1'aigle of Henri V., Count of Salm in Ardenne or InfeVieur,
1297-1308.
Saluzzo, Sardinian States, a mint of the marquises from 1221, the
date of the investiture of Manfredo III. by Frederic II. with the fief, to
1
563. M. Salvtiarvm. The coinage of this State in the latter part of
the 1
5th and commencement of the i6th c. embraces some pieces of
singular merit and artistic beauty, particularly the scudi of 1503 and
1516, to which reference may occur hereafter.
Salzburg, a mint of the Bishops and of the Dukes of Kaernthen or
Carinthia from the loth c.,
and of the former down to the i8th. Some of
the episcopal money bears the addition Ac Epus. Gvrcen (Bishop of