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

76 The Coins of Europe
and Dukes of Burgundy, I4th A c. good deal of friction and trouble
arose by reason of the pretensions of the Archbishop to the sole control
of this and other places of coinage. Au.vona, comes Auxone, Auxona
castorro, etc.
Avallon, Yonne, a mint of the Counts of Auxerre and Tonnerre, where
the Carlovingian and Auxerrois types were introduced in succession.
Probably the coinage did not survive the I3th c., but a real, ascribed to
the latter half of the I5th, reads S.G. Hovdavt Monnoier UAvalon.
Avenches, canton of Vaud, a Swiss mint under the Merovingian
princes. Aventtcum.
Avigliana, a mint of the Counts of Savoy, 1297-1405.
Avignon (Abinw), a place of Merovingian coinage and an autonomous
civic mint, where the picciolo in billon was struck with Avioncnsis partly
on one side and partly on the other. Subsequently a place of coinage of
the Popes from Clement VI. (1342-52) to Innocent XII. (1691-1700).
Clement VIII. (1592-1605) struck a double and a quadruple scudo d'oro
here ;
Innocent X. (1644-55) also had a quadruple scudo ; Gregory XV.
(1621-23) struck a. piastra and in
;
Cat. Rossi, p. 25, several examples of a
billon piece occur, with the name mistura a makeshift term for mixed
metal. One of the scarcest pieces coined here is a gpld scudo of
Innocent VIII. (1484-92). Rossi, 1880, No. 5716, 560 lire. See it
figured in the 8th plate accompanying Catalogue.
Avioth, Uept. of Meuse, a mint of the Comte de Chiny, i4th c.
Plaques and pi. are known. Moneta Aviotensis.
Baar, a free barony formerly belonging to the great feudal family of
Brederode. There is a silver daalder or thaler, with Moneta Nova
Argentea I. Ba. of Dietrich van Bronkhorst and Batenborg, Heer van
Anholt.
Babenhausen, a mint of Lichtenberg, 1587-1632.
Bacharach, Prussia, a place of coinage in the 1 4th c. for the Counts of
Moers, who struck here the gulden and the grosch. It was the ancient
seat of the Counts Palatine of the Rhine, and their mint. A gold ducat
of Ludwig IV. (1436-99) was struck herein more than one variety in 1437.
Badajos, a mint of the Moorish Kings.
fiaden, the sole mint of the margraviat and duchy down to 1572 but
;
the output was not large. At the end of the I5th c. there was a monetary
convention with Wiirtemburg for the supply of florins, etc. The earliest
copper pieces date only from 1766.
Batten Minis (minor)
:
Bischofsheim, Bischofsheim-am-Tauber,
Bodmaun, Bruchsal, Carlsruhe, Durlach, Eberstein, Emmendingen,
Gengenbach, Heidelberg, Hochberg, Klettgau, Koenigshofen, Langensteinbach
(near Durlach), Lauda, Offenburg, Pforzheim, Radolfszell,
Reichenau, Schwazach, Thiengen or Tungen, Tottnau or Taettnau,
Usenberg, Villingen, Waldshut, Weinheim, Wiesloch.
Badonvillers, Lorraine, a private mint of Francis II., Duke of
Lorraine (1625-32), who, on his abdication in the former year, reserved
the right of coinage on his own domain. See Cat. Robert, 1886, No.
1
542. Ba.
Bagnols. See Beancaire.
Bamberg, with Villach and Grieven in Carinthia, the place of coinage
of the Bishops (iith-i8th c.). The earliest pieces are deniers of Bishop
Rupercht (1075-84). The gold coinage commenced in 1354. Franz.
Ludwig, from 1794 to 1798, during the French occupation, struck silver