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

Descriptive Outline of the Coinages of Eiirope 389
originally assumed by Jean d'Arkel two centuries before,
and the singular reverse legend Avdiatvr Altera Pars.
The Dukes of Limburg in Brabant possessed a separate
coinage from the eleventh century but our ;
knowledge of it
is excessively scanty down to a few years prior
to the cession of the duchy in 1288 to the Duke
of Brabant, who assumed the title of Dvx Limburgie on
the money which he struck at Limburg, Rolduc, and Bonn.
Of the independent rulers of the province Waleran IV.
(1246-76) has left an esterlin of the Rolduc mint.
This province and territory, a County from the tenth,
and a Duchy from the fourteenth century, belonged at
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a subsequent period to the Dukes of Burgundy
Luxemburgh. __ . _ .
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and the Kings of Spam. Louis XIV. of France
detached Thionville, Damvillers, Marville, Ivoy, and Montmedy,
and from 1793 to 1815 the whole of Luxemburgh
remained in the hands of the French. Between that date
and 1867 it formed a grand-duchy under the Dutch crown,
and from 1867 to 1889 an independent appanage of the
kingdom of the Netherlands. By virtue of the Salic law,
on the demise of William III. without male issue this portion
of the dominions passed to the house of Nassau.
There are pattern-pieces of 5 francs and 10 centimes struck
in 1889 with Regence du Due Adolphe de Nassau, before the
duke de facto took over the government.
The ancient Counts of Luxemburgh have bequeathed no
records of their numismatic transactions, till we come down
to Henry II., the Blind, son of Godefroi, Count of Namur
(i i 36-96), of whom there are deniers of various types struck
at Luxemburgh. Henry III. (1226-1280) also employed
the mint at Thionville. From 1288 the history of the
counts is more or less identified with that of the empire
and of other parts of Europe. Henry V., who succeeded as
count in 1288, became emperor in 1308, and in 1309 the
celebrated John of Luxemburgh acquired the crown of
Bohemia, and assumed the title of King of Poland. Nevertheless
we possess various gros and esterlings with his
original designation, of which some are copied
from the