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

374 The Coins of Europe
parted with Schleswig-Holstein and nearly all her colonies.
This historical sketch may be sufficient to indicate to the
numismatist or amateur general lines for his guidance and
use. We must not conclude that the checkered career of
this unfortunate country was a bar or even hinderance to the
accumulation from century to century of valuable and instructive
monuments of the class which we are studying.
On the contrary, excepting the space of time occupied by
the civil wars in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, we
have it in our power to bring together a highly interesting
assemblage of pieces in all metals and of innumerable types,
stretching chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present
date. We may specify, by way of example, the coins
of Margaret, above mentioned, and her husband Eric VII.
(1387-1440); the first money with armorial cognisances
under their successor Christopher III. of Bavaria (1440-48) ;
the interregnal currency (January to September 1448), with
Moncta Regni Danice, the earliest known dated piece under
John (1481-1513), reading loh's Dei. Gra. Rex Danor. Ivssit.
me fieri. An. 1496 the first thaler or daler of
; 1513 the
;
gold ducat and its divisions and multiples, especially the
Justus Judex type of Christian IV., 1646; and the double
one of Frederic III., 1658, with a ship on reverse dividing
the motto Tandem, possibly intended for the Danish East
Indies; the double thaler of Christian IV., 1624; and the
singular klipping of 1648, with a laureated bust of Frederic
III. on obverse, and the reverse exhibiting a vase of flowers,
on the exterior of which occurs the same motto, Tandem,
as accompanies the later piece just noted. A rigsdaler
species of Christian VIII., 1840, is remarkable for the