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

Catalogue of European Mints 83
Bornstat,& seigniorial fief united to Saxony in 1290. Probably the,
or a, mint of the Counts of Mansfeldt a Bornstat,
1 6th- 1 8th c. Circa 1510-
circd 1670. There are bracteates and deniers with Brene or Bwenen,
and later pieces of 3 pfennigen with B.
Bortheim, near Reckheim, Belgium, a supposed mint of the Sombreffe
family, Seigneurs of Reckheim, I4th-i5th c. Moneta. Nova. DC.
Brot.
Bouillon, Basse-Lorraine, a mint of Godefroi IV., Duke of B.-L.,
1043-48. Some at least of his deniers bear the name of his consort
Beatrix. Associated with this town and duchy
is the name of the famous
Godefroi de Bouillon, to whom coins have been attributed in the Basse-
Lorraine series. Apparently a mint of the See of Liege in the i6th-
I7th c. See Cat. Schulman, vii. Nos. 552-55 and Cat.
; Robert, 1886,
Nos. 207-25, 388, 390. It is doubtful whether the Dues de Bouillon
struck money here. The possession of the chateau was subject to many
changes. The duchy itself and all the proprietary rights have long been
absorbed in the grand -duchy of Luxemburgh. From 1792 to 1816
Philippe d'Auvergne, Captain R.N., bore the title, and in 1815 struck a
piece of 5 francs with Philippe D'Attvergne Due Souverain de Botiillon,
and his portrait. On the edge is inscribed Domine Salvvin Fac
Dvcem.
Boulogne, a place of coinage of the Carlovingian Princes down to
Lothaire, and a seigniorial mint of a branch of the Counts of Flanders,
i ith-i3th The c. domain changed hands two or three times, passing into
the families of Dammartin and Auvergne. Besides this place of coinage
the Counts had a mint at Lens-en-Artois, to which are referred deniers of
Eustache I.
(1046-49) and Eustache II. (1049-95) with Lesni Castel, or
Lesnensis. One of the Counts of B. preserved his title after his accession
to the throne of Portugal as Alfonso III. in 1248. Urbs. Bolonie, Bolungne,
Boninge, etc. Deniers only.
Bourges, a mint of Charles le Chauve, 1840-75, of whom there is a
denier with Bitvricas on rev., and of the Vicomtes de B. down to not,
when the fief was sold to the Crown for 60,000 sols d'or. The Vicomtes
seem to have struck no money in their own name, but to have issued the
Carlovingian types in that of the King.
Bouvigne, Namur, a seat of coinage of Guillaume I.,
Count of N.,
I337-9I-
Bouiiviller, Alsace, a mint of the Counts of Hanau for their Alsatian
domains.
Bozzolo, Venetian Lombardy, 16 m. W.S.W. of Mantua, a mint of the
Gonzaga family, Princes of Bozzolo (i5th-i6th c.) and Dukes of Sabbionetta.
See Cat. Rossi, 4593, and comp. Sabbionetta and San Martina
deir Argine.
Bracara, or Braga, Galicia, a mint of the Suevic Goths, 411-30,
457-584. Br. or Civitas Braga.
Brackel, or Brakel, Pruss. Westphalia, the seat of an urban coinage
by a concession of the Bishop of Paderborn, I4th c. Moneta in Br., rev.
Brakele. Civitas.
Brandenberg, Saxony, a feudal mint in the I3th c. Bracteates with
a double-headed eagle and a bat.
Brandenburg Mints : Augermtinde, Baerwalde, Beeskow, Berlin,
Bernau, Brandenburgh, Cologne, Cottbus, Crossen, Ciistrin (ceded by
Poland to the Order of Livonia, 1259), Driesen (previously to 1317 a
Polish mint), Drossen, Frankfort -am -Oder, Freienwalde, Fiirstenwalde,