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

Catalogue of European Mints 103
D.L. De Melior-Atis on obv., and on rev. Vb. Firman, and a danaro
of Francesco Sforza (1434-46) with Co. F. Viceco. belong here.
Ferte-Chauderon, Nivernais, a place which is repeatedly stated to
have possessed the right of coinage in the 1 3th- 1 4th c., under the Counts
of Nevers. No specimen known.
Finale, Sardinian States, a mint of the Carretto family.
Fivelgo, Holland, on the R. Fivel, the name found on one of the
numberless imitations of the gros tournois, with Tvronvs Civis. and
Moneta Fivloge.
Flemish Mints. Besides those more particularly specified we may
enumerate : Aire (a lion passant and Ariensis\ Axel, Bondues (Bvntbve),
Bourbourg (Brovborg\ Cassel, and Eenaeme (Egamto or
Eganio}.
Flensburg, Schleswig, the place of a local coinage, I4th c., with
Moneta Holsascie. Low values only penningen and wit-penningen.
Florence, a Carlovingian mint under Charlemagne as King of the
Franks and Lombards, and a seat of republican coinage, first under the
ordinary form and subsequently under gonfalonieri of the Medici and
other families (1200-1315). The earliest gonfaloniere appears to have
been Baldo Ridolfi in 1304. The Medici do not occur till 1483, when
Giorgio de Medici was standard-bearer. This was the original birthplace
of the fiorino both in gold and silver, the latter having followed the
less precious metal about 1250. There is the moiety of it,
which is far rarer
than the whole, and a variety of types. Each gonfaloniere placed his own
arms on the piece coined during his term of office. Of the silver florin
there is a rare type sometimes known as the grosso della volpe. Another,
struck in 1307, received the name of popolino. It is the piece of which
Boccaccio speaks in his third novel as having been gilt by some one, who
had to pay a fine of 500 gold florins, and tried to pass off this spurious
one. From about 1530 to 1859, Florence, with Leghorn and Pisa, produced
the coinages of the Dukes and Grand : Dukes of Tuscany, of the
houses of Medici and Lorraine, and that of the short-lived kingdom of
Etruria. There are in this group many examples of fine work by
Benvenuto Cellini, and others. The gold coins, except the ordinary
florin, are rare. There is a rare piece of 4 grossi= a double julio,
struck of a type similar to the ordinary grosso with the longer legend.
Remedi Cat, 1884, No. 1282, 15 lire. During the French occupation of
Lorraine, the Duke Nicole- Francois struck coins at Florence with
Moneta Nova Florent. Cusa., 1635.
Florennes, Prov. of Namur, a place of coinage of Gaucher de
Chatillon, Count of Porcien.
Flushing, Zeeland, perhaps the place of origin of the money struck to
commemorate the installation of Maurice of Nassau, 1590, as Marquis of
Flushing or Vlissingen.
Fontenay-Le-Comte, or Figeac, a mint of Edward I. of England as
Duke of Aquitaine.
Forcalquier, or Sisteron, Basses-Alpes, formerly part of the county
and kingdom of Provence, the seat of a municipal mint, whose products
circulated concurrently with the money of the Counts of Provence in the
1 2th c.
Fosdino-uo, Modena, a seigniorial fief of the Malaspina-Centurioni
family, iyth c.
Fosses, in the prov. of Lidge, a seat of coinage granted in 974 by Otto
II. to Notger, Bishop of Lie"ge (972-1008).