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

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The Coins of Europe
Fossombrone, Urbino, a seigniorial
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5th c. De Foros-Embronio. Com p. Urbino.
fief of the Da Montefeltro family,
Fougtres, a mint of John V., Duke of Brittany, 1399-1442.
Franchimont, Namur, a mint of the prince-bishops of Liege, iyth c.
Franco - Spanish Mints during French occupation of Cataluna,
Lorraine, etc. (1640-59) :
Agramon, Arbeca, Balaguer, Banolas, Barcelona,
Bellpuig (Villa Pvlcrip), Berga, Besalu, Bisbal, Caldas, Cardona,
Cervera, Figueras, Gerona, Granollers, Igualada, Lerida, Manresa,
Matara, Oliana, Olot, Puigcerda (Podicerita], Reus, Rosas, Solsona
(Coelsona), Tagamanent, Tarragona, Tarrasa, Tarrega, Tortosa, Vails,
Vich (Civitas Vicen.}, Villafranca del Panades.
Franeker, W. Friesland, near Leeuwarden, the reputed place of origin
of coins reading Frankere and Frankeren.
Frankenberg, Hesse-Cassel, a mint employed in the I3th c. by Sophia,
Duchess of Brabant, and her son Henry.
Frankenthal, the source in 1623, during the siege by the General
Verdugo, of money of necessity and : i 4 thalers ; i, 2, and 4 florins ; 7
and 15 batzen.
Frankfort-on-Main, a royal or imperial mint as early as the nth c.
But in 1425 the city began to acquire monetary rights with certain
limitations. In 1428 it received the imperial authority to strike its own
a castle with three towers and the
money. The earliest pieces display
word Fera-Fort. F. remained the seat of an autonomous or semiautonomous
coinage in all metals on an extensive scale down to 1863.
Some of the pieces contain views of the city, and a series of thalers and
double thalers of 1860-63 have either a prospect of Frankfort or figures
(bust or full-length) of a lady, probably intended for a goddess of liberty,
but once said to be a portrait of the engraver's mistress. After all, both
statements may be correct. The convention-thaler of Friedberg, 1804,
was struck here.
Frank fort-on-the-Oder, an occasional place of coinage.
Franquemont, near Goumois, Burgundy, a chateau built in 1305, and
situated in what was known down to 1789 as Franche-Montagne. In
1437 the domain passed to Nicolas de Gilley, Seigneur de Marnoz, for
300 tcus au soleil, and in 1588 the place was erected into a barony by
Charles V. of Germany in favour of another N. de Gilley, who temporarily
struck money with N. Gillei Numisma in imitation of the imperial and
regal types (1540-54).
Fraustadt, or Wschoiva, Posen, a Polish mint in the 1 4th- 1 5th and
1 6th- 1
7th c. Stanislas Jagellon (1386-1434)
it.
employed There is a
copper uniface denier, 1609, belonging here. It seems also to have
been an early Russian mint.
Freiengen, the seat of an independent bishopric. There is a rare
thaler of 1709 with the portrait of the Bishop.
French Mints under the Capetian dynasty, I4th c. In 1306 the regal
places of coinage were only eight in number, shewing an enormous reduction
since the improvement or change in the monetary system, but also
the result of a redistribution of territory and of the rise of a large feudal
currency. The mints above referred to were Paris, Rouen, Troyes,
Tournai, Toulouse, Saint-Pourcain, Montpellier, and Montreuil-Bonnin
Monsteriolu ( tn) .
French Mints under the Valois dynasty, 1328-1400. The number of
mints was now vastly increased, and the quality of the money of lower
values equally debased. As far back as the time of Philip le Bel (1285-