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

238 The Coins of Europe
a copper 4-tari piece, seldom found in good state, and usually countermarked.
There are several dates, 1636, 1641, etc.
Tehetvertak, the Russian silver piece of 25 kopecks or J rouble.
Tercenario, the \ and the \, a copper currency of the Norman Princes
of Apulia and Sicily, i ith-i2th c. Pieces occur with the value expressed :
Mcd. Tcrc. and Quarta. Tcrcenarii.
Terlina, a billon coin struck by Louis XII. of France at Asti.
Terlino, a coin of Alba in the Abruzzi, i6th c.
Tern, a small coin of the ancient Counts of Barcelona, the I2th of the
quern.
Ternaria, Vecchia, a value expressed on an Italian token of the i6thc.,
and perhaps concurrent with one in actual money of the same period.
Tersarolo, or Terzarolo, a billon denomination current at Milan
under the Visconti, I4th c. There is one of Galeazzo Visconti, as Lord of
Milan and Verona, with Comes Virtvti'in on reverse. The third of the
danaro.
Testoon, teston, testone, tostao, a term applied in different languages
to a coin with a head or portrait, apart from its strict denomination, and
eventually given to one of a certain size irrespectively of its proper meaning.
The European testoon is usually of the dimensions of an English
florin and of the weight and value of a quadruple groat or double julio.
Thaler, daler, dalar, daalder, tallcro, dollar, a silver coin widely diffused
over the Teutonic countries of Europe, and adopted under varying
forms of the name elsewhere. Numerous A varieties occur in the schauthalcr,
klippethaler, I'icariatsthaler, etc. very remarkable and rare
one of Saxon type was struck in 1
584, probably at Ruremonde, in the
name of Rudolph II., as Duke of Gueldres, with Nvmvs. Dvc. Gef Ad.
Leg. Imper. F. The name is generally supposed to be taken from
Joachimsthal in Bohemia, where the silver mines were worked about
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1518. But the coin existed long prior to that date. A singular series or
group of thalers was issued by Ludwig of Bavaria between 1825 and
1832 on all sorts of public or even personal occasions. They are, as a
rule, tolerably common, and occur in unused state ; but that having on
rev. a small full-length of the king standing at a table, on which his
hand rests, the crown and sceptre at his side, and dated 1825, is valued
by Schulman of Amersfoort at 135 gulden. A very erotic type
is said to
have been struck by one of the early electors of Saxony in honour of his
mistress.