THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

CONTINENT OF EUROPE
beliard, presents a large body of material to the
collector or student in all metals from the fourteenth
century ; there was a separate coinage for Montbeliard
in the lower values ; the full titles on the money
describe the sovereign as Count or Duke of Wurtem-
burg, Count of Montbeliard, and Lord of Heidenheim.
The gold ducats of Duke Ulric are varied through the
course of his protracted reign (1498-1550); there are
many pieces interesting for the costume.
We call attention to the extensive area of research
and selection existing in Bavaria and the Palatinate,
a region interesting in connection with the Thirty
Years' War and its incidence, and the union of the
Palssraf Frederic with Elizabeth Stuart. Gardiner's
" History of the War," 1874, should be consulted. It
is here that we have to place the not very extensive but
peculiarly interesting money of the princely family of
the Fuggers, dating from 1534, when Charles V. ac-
corded to Anton Fugger, Herr von Weissenhorn, who
died in 1560, the right of striking his own coins ;
these
have usually on the reverse the imperial titles and
symbol.
When we enter Saxony, there is a great diffi-
culty in emerging without entering into an amount
of detail which is at present impossible ; for the par-
tition of the province among several reigning houses,
and the concurrent existence of a large number of in-
dependent feudal and urban centres, have combined to
accumulate a store of numismatic records alike un-
surpassed in extent and variety, in historical value,
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