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

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Catalogue
of Eiiropean
Denominations 201
supposed to have been carried on the person of the ancient owner as a
charm ;
the obv. has the Madonna and Child.
Follaro, fromfollts, a wallet or purse, a copper coin of the Byzantine
Emperors, 7th-8th c.,
if not later, and of the Norman Kings of Sicily
and Sicily and Naples, Iith-I2th c., struck at a variety of places (Naples,
Gaeta, Messina, Ravenna, Ragusa in Sicily, Amalfi, Brindisi, etc.,
and by the Princes of Taranto (1100-31). Both the Byzantine and
Sicilian follaro,
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Norman coins present the effigy of St. Januarius, and probably these
were from the Naples mint. One of the smaller module (if it really is
of this type at all), perhaps a ^ or J, belonging to Ragusa in Sicily, bears
on obv. a head in the ancient Greek style, intended for the Tyche of the
city. The follaro seems to have varied in weight and value, and to
have been worth at different times 20 and 40 nnmmi. See Nummiis.
Fort, the term assigned by the French numismatists to a rare gold
coin of Charles de France, Duke of Aquitaine, struck at La Rochelle,
with the quartered shields of France and England and the legend
Karolus. Regis. Francr. Films. Acqiritanor. Dux, and a ship on both
sides. Comp. La Rochelle in Cat. of Mints. The specimen of the fort
examined by Blanchet weighed 7 gr. 76. There is also a silver gros of
Charles with the quartered arms.
Fort, a silver type of Lyons in and after 1368 = 2 deniers viennois.
Fort. Comp. Fert.
Fort bourgeois. See Bourgeois.
Forte, a term applied rather to the standard than to any particular
coin in the Portuguese monetary vocabulary, to distinguish the internal
from the colonial currency. The phrase probably had the same origin
in France and Savoy.
Franc, a gold coin of France of two distinct kinds :
faefranc-d-ptedaad.
franc-a-cheval, current in France and Brittany during the Valois period,
and originally designed to represent a figure on foot or on horseback.
Both types were imitated in Flanders, Holland, and the Two Sicilies.
Franc, a silver French coin of the later Valois kings, and of the house
of Bourbon, being nearly equal in size to an English crown. The decree
calling it into existence bears date Mar. 31, 1575. There is the half.
Improved patterns of both were submitted by Briot in 1618, but were not
adopted. It was superseded in 1642 by the grand ecu.
Franc, a silver coin of the See of Metz, I7th c., but at present only
known in the and j ;
1621-60.
Franc, a silver coin, only preserving the name of the original pieces,
and first introduced in a multiple of five during the French Revolution.
The earliest modern piece appears to be that of Napoleon as First
Consul, An. xi.
Francescone, the name received by the scudo of silver on the acces-