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

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The Coins of Europe
pennies of Edward I. of England. Two monetary conventions,
possibly arising from his calls elsewhere, were successively
concluded about :
1340 by John one with the Count
of Bar, where the common coinage
is termed Moneta
Sociorvm ; and the other with the Count of Namur and the
struck at the Namur mint with the names
Bishop of Liege,
of the three contracting parties. His successor, Charles I.
(1346-55), was King of Bohemia and emperor, and developed
the Luxemburgh coinage by introducing two
types of the gold florin and the chaise or clinkaert.
The next count, Wenceslas I.
(1653-83), brother of Charles,
was made duke, and enjoyed a long and prosperous reign,
which was marked by a third monetary concordat with
Sarrebriick and Treves, and by continued activity in improving
and extending the coinage. He struck at Luxemburgh
and at his chateau of Mouzaive imitations of the gold
Florentine and other types, and a variety of other money in
silver. Wenceslas II.
(1383-88) and Jodocus of Moravia
(1388-1402, 1407-11), both in turn emperors, their successors,
and the Dukes of Burgundy, to whom Luxemburgh
was sold in 1444, continued the same class of currency.
From 1504 to 1577 we seem to have no monuments by
reason of the mints having been closed. But the Austrian
and Spanish masters of the Netherlands issued a large
volume of money, chiefly of the lower values, in sols and
liards, from the mints at Brussels and Guntzburg ;
and in
1854 and 1860 bronze pieces of 10, 5, and 2\ centimes
were coined for the grand-duchy. There is also a 10
centimes of 1870. The currency of Maria Theresa bears
Ad Vsvm Dvcatvs Lvxem. The 6 and 3 plated sols, 1790,
and ^ Hard, 1789, of Joseph II., merely have the Luxemburgh
shield, the value, and the date.
The seigneury of Reckheim was in the possession of
the Sombreffe family in the eleventh century, and remained
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in their hands till 1480, when the property passed
ReckheinT ^7 marriage to the house of Pirmont It again
changed owners two or three times through
heiresses, and belonged to the De la Marck, Vlodorp, and