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

2 1 8 The Coins of Europe
Mourisca, an early Castilian coin, current in Portugal = 2| libra or
libras. There was the double. I4th-i5th c.
Mouton, the name of a gold coin struck in France intermittently from
the reign of Philip IV. to that of Charles VI. (1314-1422), and imitated
by Louis de Maele, Count of Flanders (1346-84). It is otherwise known
as the Agnel, the type being that of the paschal lamb. There is the
i or petit agnel.
Munzlamm. See Lammpfenning.
Miinz-rccht, the right to strike money, a commercial privilege which,
like the mark-recht, or title to a market, was conferred in Germany and
the Netherlands under a variety of conditions, as regarded the share of
the accruing advantages.
Murajola, a papal silver coin of the i6th c. See Cat. Rossi, 1880,
No. 601.
Miiterken, a piece of 6 mites. Billon, i6th c. Nimmhcgen, etc.
Napoleon, the name conferred on the 2o-franc gold piece under
Napoleon I. (1805-15), and still associated with it.
Negenmanneke, a type of dute or doit, current in the Southern Netherlands
under the Spanish and Austrian rule.
Ncu-groschcn, a Saxon denomination (1847) for a new standard, the
groschen = 10 pf.
There are the pieces of 2 neu-groschen, i,
and \.
Niquet, a type of the French double tournois of billon with a Us
surmounted by a crown (Charles VI., 1380-1422).
Niquet, an Anglo-Gallic billon coin of Henry VI. of England, with H.
Re.v. Angl. Heres, Franc, and a leopard under a Us.
Niquet, a billon coin of Besangon, 1 4th- 6th 1 c., with the half. It is
one of those which bear a posthumous portrait of Charles V. of Germany,
who in 1
533 authorised the representatives of the Burgundian family of
Bouhelier to strike this type with their own names and arms, and in this
document speaks of the niquet as anciently current in Burgundy.
Noble, a gold coin struck for various provinces of the Netherlands in
the 1 6th c. on the model of the rose-noble of Edward IV. The original
imitation that of Gorcum or Gorinchen followed the lines of the
English piece very closely. See Schulman, De Imitation des Monnaies
Etrangcres aux Pays Bas Mcridionaux, 1892. There are the half and
quarter of the later copies but none is at ;
present known of the Gorcum
one. Schulman, Cat. ix. 117, cites a \ noble schuijtken of Philip the
Good and Maximilian (1482-97). In the Proposal addressed to Henry
VIII. of England by Nicolas Tyery in 1526 for a new Irish coinage, this,
the salute, the maille, the denier, the Hard, etc., are named as projected
denominations. It is
perhaps remarkable, looking at the intimate relations
between Edward III. and the Netherlands and the monetary treaty
of 1345, that the Flemings or Hollanders did not attempt to copy so
admirable a type even more promptly.
Nomine Domini or Domini Nomine, a phrase and title which constituted
the prototype of Dei Gratia. The words almost invariably occur
in initials only, N.D. or D.N., and are found on the coins of the Ostrogoths
in the 6th c. Eudes, King of France (887-98), adopted the form
Gratia Domini, which ultimately became the modern and Western
development of the notion, as contrasted with the Oriental or Mohammedan
feeling resident in the original dictum.
Nitmmus (Gr. v6[j.os, vtpeiv}, like the German scheide miinze, anything
intended or suitable for distribution the ; perhaps nominal unit of the