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

Descriptive Outline of the Coinages of Europe 371
George I. which is of the most commonplace and unattractive
description.
The existing currency includes the silver drachma, its
multiples in gold and divisions in its own metal, and the i,
2, 5, and 10 lepta in bronze. The 5
are known as the obolos and diobolos.
and 10 lepta pieces
The drachma is =
IOO lepta.
IX. TURKEY IN EUROPE
We merely refer to this division of our subject in order
to point out that the currency of the government of the
Sultan belongs by
its origin and costume to Asia rather
than to Europe. But in certain respects
it exerted an
influence over those of the provinces which at one time
formed part of the Ottoman Empire, and in emancipating
themselves did not wholly lose sight of their former associations.
The coinage of Servia at the present moment follows
in name that of Turkey, where the prevailing unit is the par
and its multiples of 5, 10, 20, and 40.
X. THE NORTHERN KINGDOMS
The coinage of Denmark, which is
very obscure and
involved for several reasons, seems susceptible of a classification
into four leading periods
:
I, the early
Anglo-Danish and Dano-Teutonic coinage, much
of which partakes of an ecclesiastical character and tone
in consequence of the heads of the Church having been
customarily associated with the sovereign on the money ; 2,
the irregular and debased money in circulation during the
civil wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth century ; 3, the
commencement of a clearer chronological order and of a