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

Catalogue of European Mints 161
Siegen, .Pruss. Westphalia, a mint of the See of Cologne, I3th c.
Segen and Segensis.
Sienna, Tuscany, a Carlovingian mint and a seat of republican coinage
under imperial authority from the nth to the i6th c., except a brief
period of subjection to the Duke of Milan (1390-1404). About 1550
it
fell into the hands of the Medici family. A rare gold scudo of Cosmo I.
reads Cosmvs Med. Flor. Et. Satiar. Dvx. On rev. is Sena Vetvs
Civitas Virginis. The latter inscription commonly occurs on the
autonomous money. It may be remarked that the Sienese, in celebration
of a victory over the Florentines, struck a piece of 4 gold scudi of
udo di oro, isth c.
the ordinary type, on obv., but having on rev. Manvs Tve. Domine
Fecerunt Me. Cat. Rossi, 1880, No. 4813, 250 lire.
Sierck, a mint of the Dukes of Lorraine in the I4th and I5th c.
Cicrk, Cirkes, or Sicrk.
Sigtuna, or Zigtuna, the place of coinage of the earliest esterlings of
Sweden during the reign of Olaf Skdtkonung, 1001-26. Zin. Zitvn.
Silesian Mints: Bernstatt, Breslau, Brieg, Frankenberg, Frankenstein
(transferred in 1507 to Reichenstein), Freistadt, Friedeberg, Glatz,
Glogau, Goerlitz, Goldberg, Herrnstadt, Jauer, Klein-Glogau, Kreuzberg,
Lausitz, Liegnitz, Loewenberg, Liiben, Munsterberg, Namslau, Neisse,
Nickolsdorf, Oels, Ohlau, Oppeln, Ratibor, Reichenbach, Reichenstein,
Sagan, Schweidnitz, Striegau, Trachenberg, Trebnitz, Wartenberg,
Wohlau.
Sinigaglia, a mint of the Delia Rovere family, Dukes of Urbino
(i 6th c.).
Sirmium, a fortress in Bulgaria, of which the Governor, Sermon,
struck in or about A.D. 1019 small gold siege-pieces during the struggle
for Bulgarian independence against Byzantium or Constantinople. These
pieces bear a monogram on obv., and on rev. the name and rank of
Sermon in native characters.
Sisteron, Basses-Alpes. See Forcalqnier and Toulon.
Sittart, or Sittard, a Brabantine mint in the I4th c. There is a groot
of Waleran de Born struck here. Sch., Cat. vii. 492.
Sitten, a Merovingian mint (Sidvnis) ; subsequently of uniface coins
bearing the bust of St. Theodolus, probably by virtue of the imperial
grant of 1274. An episcopal mint from 1457 to 1780. Svitensis.
Skoplje, a mediaeval fortress of Servia, where money was struck with
the name of the place of origin in Slavonic characters.
Slagelse, an early Danish mint. Slahlov.
Shiijs, Zeeland, a mint of Philip le Beau, Duke of Burgundy, in 1492,
as Damoiscau or minor. It struck money of necessity during the siege
by Maximilian I. of Austria in 1492 in the name of the Archduke Philip :
a gold florin and a briquet and double briquet in silver.
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