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

86 The Coins of Europe
Brussels, an early Brabantine mint (m.m. a bridge or tower, afterward
an angel's head) and the seat of coinage of the Dukes of Brabant and
the successive rulers of this part of the Low Countries. See Cat. Robert,
1886, No. 134, for a notice of an early denier struck here in the name of
the chapter of St. Gudule. There is a variety of siege-pieces during the
i6th and iyth c. ;
some of those in gold are doubtful and
;
one of 1579 is
usually suspected. B. was perhaps the mint of the interesting series of
revolutionary money struck for the eleven revolted provinces in 1790, consisting
14 (and probably, though we have not seen it, 7) florins in
gold, and in silver 3 florins, i florin (of two types), 10 sols (do.), and in
copper the Hard and double Hard. The engraver
is said to have been
Van Berckel. From 1816 to 1831, prior to the partition of the Netherlands,
Brussels was one of the mints of Willem I. of the house of Orange-
Nassau.
Bucharest, Wallachia, probably one of the seats of coinage of the
hospodars and Kings of Roumania.
Biickeburg, the capital of Schaumburg-Lippe, and probably the seat
of its coinage.
Buda, or Buda-Pesth, metropolis of Hungary, a seat of the Hungarian
coinage during the independence of this part of the Austrian dominions.
Its earliest productions were coins on the Byzantine model, and very early
pieces in copper exist. The German and Austrian emperors have
always issued special money of the Virgin and Child type for Hungary.
In Overijssel, in the Low Countries, the type of the gold ducat with the
name of S. Vladislaus and the Virgin and Child was adopted at an early
period with a very slight or even no alteration.
Bunde (PLimburg), a seigniorial mint of the I5th c., where billon
pieces, bearing a shield crowned with a branch, and reading lohans De
Bvnde, or lohs. de Broegh, were struck. Comp. Broech.
Burgdorf, canton of Berne. Bv. or Bvrgdorf. See Kyburg.
Burg Friedberg, Hesse -Darmstadt, a feudal burgraviat, and afterwards
viscounty, which had a concession from Charles V. in 1541 to
strike money in gold and silver. The albus was current herein 1591,
Johan Eberhard being then viscount. The coinage continued intermittently
till 1804.
Burgos, a mint of the Kings of Castile and Leon, I3th-i4th c. There
are cornadi of John of Gaunt as King of C. and L., with lohannis Rex
on obv. and a bust, and on rev. Castele. E. Lcgionis. B.
Busca, Sardinia, the source of coins of the Marchese Manfredi
Lancia, 1299.
Caderousse, Vaucluse, the place where, if at all, gold and silver money
would probably have been struck by the Vicomtes de Cadenet, according
to a homage by Agnes, Vicomtesse de C., to the Countess of Provence
in 1245, when the former claims the right of such coinage.
Cadiz, a Spanish mint. C. crowned.
Cagliari, Sardinia, a mint of the Spanish Kings of Sicily, and of Spain
and Sardinia, of Charles VI. of Germany, and of the Dukes of Savoy,
down to 1721 ; subsequently of the Kings of Sardinia down to 1812, when
it
appears to have been closed. There is also a grosso of the Gherardesca
family, I3th c., struck here.
Cahors, formerly cap. of Cahourcin or Haut Quercy, now Dept. of
Lot, a very ancient episcopal mint, of which at more than one period,
12 1 2, 1224, etc., the bishop temporarily ceded the right to the town for