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THE COLLECTOR SERIES
Continental names—The forms of Continental names
of plaees and persons are somewhat different in different
writers and works, and it is difficult to decide on a
uniform orthography. Of the termination for fortified
positions, or at least localities which owe their designa-
tion to having been originally strongholds, we have, for
instance, four variants :
—
Burg, Burgh, Burg, Berg:
Contorniutus, or Xtoni vontorniuti—A peculiar class of
Roman medallions, rather than coins, of special module,
and with peculiar characteristics, of which the applica-
tion seems to be uncertain. See Stevenson in v.
Contrefagon—An imitation or counterfeit.
Cunvention-muney—A legacy from the monetary
system of the ancients, who had similarly their alliance-
coms. Comp. also Bwndesthaler and Vereinsmilnze,
Dreilandcr and Vicrlandcr, in Ha/litt's "Coins of
Europe." The earliest modern European convention-
money appears to be that of 1240, unless the treaty
between Brabant, Limburg, and Louvain (1006-15)
was really such an arrangement : see Hazlitfs " Coins
of Europe," p. 384. The half daalder of 1580, on a
square flan, reads on obverse Trivm •
Daven •
Campcn
Chi
•
Impe •
Zwol, and bears in the field the arms
of the three towns and the date, and on the reverse the
double-headed eagle and imperial titles. There are
thalers of the same series with the portrait of Charles V.,
but without his titles. The coinage issued during the
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