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

242 The Coins of Europe
many well-known and interesting coins, among which we may mention
the gold Anglo-Gallic salute of Henry VI. The Franco-Spanish livra
seems to have conformed to the weight of Cologne, eight ounces troy to
the Ib.
Weinachtsthaler, the name of the thaler of 1518, with the portrait of
Maximilian I. to 1., wearing berretta and the order of the Golden Fleece.
Weissgroschen, a small silver or billon coin of the Bishops of
Munster.
Weisspfenning, a piece belonging to the same class current in the
city of Cologne.
Wiegman, a Danish coin of the loth c., similar in weight, value, and
fabric to the silver penny or esterling. Comp. Hamaland- Wigman in
Catalogue of Mints.
WUdemannsgidden, or thaler, a silver coin of Brunswick (with its
divisions), bearing the curious historical type of the Wild Man. It also
occurs with two wild men in the same series, and in copper, and with a
wild man and woman on a silver coin of Schwarzburg, 1791. The
ordinary type is imitated on a gulden of Gertrude of Bronkhorst, 1577.
Witpenning, or IVittenpcnning, white or plated pfenning of Wismar,
Rostock, Stralsund, Wolgast, and other towns in the I4th and following
centuries. It is named in conventions of 1381, 1403, and 1425
= a
sechsling or \ schilling. The albus of the N. of Europe.
Xerafin.
See Parddo.
*
Yuzlik, Turkish, billon, value 2| piastres, 3d.
* Zahl pfennig, German, brass, the jeton or reckoning penny.
Zanobino, a Florentine imitation of the Venetian ducat by a Zurich
banker and merchant named Lampronti in 1805, struck with a view to
employment in the Levantine trade, on the strength of the repute gained
by the original type. But the speculation failed, and the limited number