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
and mezzo-grossetto in silver ;
and the sesino in bronze, were struck
here. A double zecchino at the Rossi sale in 1880, No. 6, produced
360 Iire = ,i4 :8s. The popes, from Nicholas V. (1447-55)10 Pius VI.
(1775-99), struck the usual pontifical types in all metals. In 1848, pieces
of one and two baiocchi were minted in the revolutionary interest.
Andernach, Rhenish Prussia, a mint of the Emperors to Henry III. ;
of the Dukes of Lorraine ;
and of the Archbishops of Cologne. Frederic
I. confirmed the right of the last-named in 1167. Twodeniersof Thierri,
Duke of Lorraine, 984-1024, read Andernaka. See Cat. Robert, 1886,
Nos. 1058-59. Certain municipal or civic money was struck here in 1725.
Anduse. See Sommieres.
Angers, a Carlovingian mint and one of Eudes, Count or King of
Paris, 887-98 also a
; place of coinage of the Counts of Anjou, loth-nth
c.
(Andegavis Civitas}, and of the Anglo-Gallic rulers under the Plantagenets.
There is a double louis of Louis XIV., 1702, struck here. In
1716, Louis XV. purchased the tithes claimed by the chapter of St. Laud
d'Angers on the profits of the coinage, granted to it by the Counts, for
6000 livres. The money produced here was commonly known as angevin
or monnaie angevine.
Anglo -Gallic Mints: Auch or Agen, Auxerre, Bayonne, Bergerac,
Bordeaux, Calais, Chateauroux, Dax, Ddols, Dijon, Figeac or Fontenayle-Comte,
Guiche or Guessin (chateau near Bayonne), La Rochelle,
Lectoure, Limoges, Melle, Montreuil-Bonnin, Paris, Poictiers, Rouen,
Saint Quentin, Salle-le-Roy (near Montreuil-Bonnin), Tarbes.
Angouleme, the seat of a royal and seigniorial mint from the loth to
the end of the I4th c. Egolisime or Engolismc. This domain was, with
that of La Marche, united to the Crown in 1322.
Angra, in the island of Terceira, one of the Agores, a place of independent
Spanish coinage in 1582 after the annexation of Portugal itself
to Spain. Coins in all metals of Spanish fabric and denominations were
struck here with A and a falcon for the Agores.
Anhalt-Dcssait, Saxony, a principality
in the nth c. under a son of
the Duke of Saxony. A mint of the Dukes and of the Emperors. The
right of coining gold was conferred in 1
503. A bracteate of Albert the
Bear reads Marchio Anehaldensi. The earliest thalers are referred to
1539. We have a very early copper pfennig with Man. Princ. Anh. Dt.
and a lion rampant on obv., and on rev. in four lines In Domin. Fiducia
nost.
Anhalt-Bernburg. See Bernburg.
Anholt, Westphalia, a seigniorial fief, which obtained in 1571 from
Maximilian II. a recognition of its right to strike money. In 1618 it was
a mint in the employment of the Grafen von Bronkhorst, and from 1637
to 1663 in that of the Prince of Salm. There are duits in copper reading
Civitas Anh. or Cvsa Anh.
Aniche, Dept. of Nord, France, the place of origin ot a bronze piece
of 30 sols, struck for the miners, 1820.
Annaberg, Saxony, a mint of the Dukes of Saxony, i6th c.
Annecy, in the Genevois, a mint of the feudal counts, opened 1 5th
Aug. 1356, closed in consequence of opposition from the See of Geneva
and from Savoy in 1362, reopened in 1374, and finally abandoned in
1391.
Annenskoie, a Russian mint under Catherine II.
Anspach, Bavaria, probably (with Culmbach) the place of coinage of
the early feudal lords of Brandenburgh-Anspach.