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

502 The Coins of Europe
vidually, there do not appear to be any monetary remains ;
but of the fief of Encre or Anchora there are early coins
belonging to the original holders from the Count of Flanders
in the twelfth century and the house of
; Courtenay is represented
by a few deniers bearing the names of Pierre de
Courtenay, who married in 1 1 8 i the heiress of Moers, and
of the two consorts of his daughter, Mahaut de Courtenay.
A singular instance here occurs, in which, from the early
years of the fifteenth century (1417-19), a lordship in Burgundy
remained, amid all the political vicissi-
Montbeliard.
, ,. ,. r
tudes of succeeding times, and in the presence oi
a formal cession to the Crown of France in 1536,
till the
Revolution (1793) in the hands of the Duke of Wiirtemburg,
whose ancestor, Eberhard IV., acquired
it
by his marriage
with Henriette de Montbeliard. There are pieces of Count
Ulric (1520-26) with two trout back to back in the shield
and Comes. Montis. Bellig. ; but the first regular coinage was
under Frederic I., who established a mint at Montbeliard in
1585, and struck money there for his French vassals, chiefly
of low denominations ;
the series was carried by his successors
down to 1720. There are the 6 and 3 kreutzer, the
3 and I
batzen, and the Hard ;
the last with the portrait of
the Duke of Wiirtemburg and the legend Liard de Montbeliard
for the sake of distinction.
it
Of rarities and introuvables in the entire French series
will have been probably collected from occasional remarks
that there is an extraordinary profusion sufficiently so to
deter the modern collector from engaging in the attempt to
render himself complete or consecutive
;
and it
happens here,
as we have previously observed, that certain pieces were
apparently struck at the time for presents only or as mint
essays, and exist nowhere outside the Bibliotheque. This
more particularly applies, of course, to the regal class ;
and
a study of the pages of Hoffman will soon corroborate the
statement and view. But in the feudal coinage it is equally
the case that there are examples of the rarest occurrence