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

Catalogue of European Mints 173
Henry L'Oiseleur, and of the bishops from the loth to the I7th c.
1633). The original concession to the See was from the Comtes de
Verdun, of whom, however, no money is identified. Down to the middle
of the nth c. the bishops added the imperial titles to their money (as
the Counts indeed may have done before them, even withholding their
own names). About the middle of the I3th c. there was perhaps the
same sort of municipal jealousy as at Metz, and we hear of the episcopal
currency of Toul being confined to the rural districts, and possibly
it was
struck out of the city. The early French regal types (gros tournois,
denier, blanc a la queue, etc.) were imitated at V. A very fine grand ecu
of Charles de Lorraine- Chaligny, Bp. of V., 1616-22, is figured in Cat.
Robert, 1 148 this and other ;
productions of the same reign are attributed
to the engravers B[ailly] and G[ennetaire]. In the Merovingian pieces
this place is indifferently described as Verduno, Vereduno, Virdun,
Virdimo, Virdunum, Virdunis civitas, etc. Other mints of the See were
Dieulouard, transferred about 1616 to Mangiennes, Hattonchatel, Dun,
and Sampigny. Comp. Saint-Mihiel and Varennes*
Vergagni, Genoese territory, a fief and perhaps mint of the Spinola
family, iyth c.
Verona, a mint of the Lombard kings, 7th-8th c. of the ; emperors, loth
c. ;
of an autonomous republic,
1 2th- 1
3th c. ; and of the successive rulers
of that part of Lombardy, except that the Venetians do not appear to
have struck money here. There are coins of the La Scala or Scaliger
family, Lords of Verona (1262-1381) the grosso and the soldo, both in
silver.
Vesteras, an early Swedish mint. Westear.
Vevey, canton of Vaud, a Swiss mint under the Merovingian princes.
Viviscussi.
Vezelise, Meurthe, formerly in Lorraine, and a mint of the Dukes of
L. and Bar. Veseli.
Vianen, 21 m. N. of Luxemburgh, a mint of the early Seigneurs of
Brederode. We may call attention to a rare daalder of Heinrich van
Brederode, with his bust to his r., gauntlets and plumed helmet in front
of him. The legend (Nisi Doininvs Frvstra) is divided by the shields of
Brederode, Vianen, and Mark. On the rev. is a quartered escutcheon
with Mone>. No\ D1
. Bred1
. Lt. D\ Viari. There is a f thaler of Friedrich
Adolf, 1715, Count of Lippe and Seigneur of Vianen.
Viborg, an early Dano-Swedish mint. Viber, Pibr. Probably the
place of coinage of the bishops, I2th c., whose coins bear Wiberga or
Kelil (St. Killian or Ketil).
Vic, near Metz, a temporary mint of the Bishops of M. about 1556,
while the right of coinage within the city was in the hands of Henry II.
of France. The latter complained of the debased standard issued at
V. Here Henri de Vernueil, Bishop of Metz from 1612, struck the last
episcopal money of that diocese.
Vicenza, the place of origin of an apparently autonomous aqtiilino
with Vicencie on obv. and Civitas on rev. I3th c.
Vich, or Ausonna (
Vicus Ausonice\ Cataluiia, probably an early Carlovingian
place of coinage, and a mint of Wilfred II., Count of Barcelona,
906-13, of which he left by will a third of the profits to the church here.
There is an anonymous denier of one of the bishops with Episcopi Viet.
and Santi Pctri. V. was also a Franco-Spanish mint during the French
occupation of the province, 1642-48.
Vienna (Wien\ a mint from the I2th c., and a place of coinage,