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
Gliickstadt, Holstein, formerly a place of coinage of this branch of the
house of Holstein, and subsequently or concurrently a Danish mint.
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1^ thaler of Frederic III. was struck here in 1668. Civitas Glvctstadiensis.
The coinage seems to have commenced under Christian IV.
about 1620.
Gnezen, or Znin, Posen, a Polish mint in the 1
3th- 1 4th c. It is
mentioned elsewhere that the Poles about this time still
employed skins
as currency. Gnesdim.
Gnichc, or Gnessin, near Bayonne, a mint of Edward I. and III. of
England as Dukes of Aquitaine, and of John of Gaunt.
Goldberg, Silesia, the place of origin of certain uniface pfennigen, or
rather perhaps 3-pf. pieces, during the Thirty Years' War. Two before us
have the dates 1622 and 1623, and G.B. divided by a soaring eagle.
This money belongs to the same class and type as that issued about this
time at Breslau, etc.
Gorinchen, or Gorcum, the place of origin of a copper coin of John of
Bavaria, Count of Holland, 1418-25. The English rose-noble was first
copied here. There is an undated copper duit of the Aux. in Nom.
Dom. type, with Gore, in Holl.
Goritz, or Goers, on the Isonzo, Austria, a mint of the early Counts
of Goritz, I5th-i6th c., if not of the ancient Counts of the Tyrol, I3th c.
Some of the later money (1450-1500) bears Conies Goricie De Lvonz.,
Lvonze, or Moneta De Lvonza and Gori. Conies. The types were
imitated from those of Aquileia. Charles VI., Maria Theresa, etc., struck
copper money for this province.
Gorodetz, an early Russian mint.
Gorze, Dept. of the Moselle, an abbey and seigniorial fief, connected
with the ducal house of Lorraine, and in the persons of Charles de
Rdmoncourt, abbe" in 1607, and of Charles de Lorraine, 1643, the source
of an important series of coins in gold and silver, which may have
probably been struck at Metz, of which the See acquired the abbey in
1659. There is a testoon of Charles of Lorraine, abbot (1608-48). Gorze
was united to the French Crown in 1663.
Goslar, Hanover, a place of coinage in the i6th c. There is a
mariengroschen of 1553. The coin called a gosseler may have owed its
name to this place, which was formerly and long of considerable
importance.
Gotha, during the blockade by Augustus, Elector of Saxony, struck a
gold ducat and silver pieces of and I 2 thalers, and a grosch.
Gottingen, Hanover, a mint in the i6th-i7th A c. mariengroschen of
1529 belongs here. A thaler of 1659 with the titles of Leopold I. on rev.,
and on obv. Moneta Nova Gottingensis^ sold at the Reinmann sale,
1891-92, Part ii., 6592, for 675 marks.
Granada, a mint of the Almohades (516-668) and of the Moorish
Kings. There are coins indicating that they were struck within the walls
of the Alhambra, the seat, as elsewhere in early times, of the whole
official machinery. Also a place of coinage of the later Kings of Spain.
Ferdinand VII. struck here the proclamation-money for the province,
dated nth September 1808, in gold and silver; there is a double gold
escudo of this series (m.m. a pomegranate) also a duro (money of necessity),
same year. G. GNA.
;
Grandmont, La Marche, apparently at the beginning of the I3th c.
the seat of the coinage of Hugues, Comte de la Marche, who is said in
1208 to have given the church of G. the duty of assaying his money.