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

Descriptive Ozitline of the Coinages of E^{,rope 455
so famous by reason of the legend of Patient Griselda, particularly
the testone of Lodovico II., 1475-1502,
the medaglia or scudo of the same with his
second wife, Margaret de Foix, 1503, and the coin of similar
module of 1516 of the widowed marchioness. The first and
third we copy in the present volume, the latter from a
peculiarly fine example recently found at Lyons ;
the testone
is undated, but probably prior to 1504. In the scudo of
1503, the earliest dated coin of Saluzzo, if not of modern
Italy, the marquis and his consort face each other he in the
;
sort of berretta shown in the testoon, she in a wimple or
veil. The coin of the widowed Marguerite, 1516, presents
in
the legend of the reverse the place of origin and the name
the two latter
of the :
moneyer J\anuce\ J\pJiannes\ C\lot\,
words in a monogram. Clot was a German medallist at
Genoa, and the fabric and character of the piece remind us
of several of those in the German series, of which we have
had occasion to speak.
In the previous sections a tolerably full view of the
general numismatic history of the very numerous places
Other throughout the Peninsula which exercised mone-
Italian
tary autonomy will have prepared the reader to
ns '
understand how, apart from the leading states, a
network of minor centres existed here in the Middle Ages
precisely as in other regions, and the information already
supplied may be sufficient for our immediate purpose.
The Catalogues, again, have denoted the localities where
Charles VI., VII., and VIII., Louis XI. and XII., Francis
Franco- ^'' Henry II., and Louis XIV. at intervals caused
Italian
money to be struck in their names during the
French occupation of portions of Italy between
1396 and 1515. Almost all this currency was copied from
local models, but occasionally followed French types. It is
distinguished far beyond the ordinary Italian coinage, on
account of its entrance into the range of the French collectors
;
and many of the pieces realise very large prices.
The double gold ducat of Asti is valued at 60, the quadruple
testone of Francis I. at ^48, the double scudo of