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

Catalogue of European Mints 1 1 9
in 1549. The thaler of Augustus III. of Poland, 1754, was minted
here.
Lc Mans. See Mans.
Lemberg, Austrian Poland, a mint of the Kings of Poland of the
Jagellon dynasty, I4th-i5th c.
Lemgo, Lippe, a mint of the Emperors, of the Counts of Lippe, and of
the Bishops of Paderborn. Lemgoens, or Lemego Civitas. The deniers of
Cologne were imitated here with the mark Colonia.
Lens-en-Artois. See Boulogne.
Leopoldstadt, Hungary, the source of siege-money (poltura) during
the troubles and disorders of 1704-7.
Lepanto, a mint of Philip, Prince of Taranto, I4th
Le c.
Puy, France, Dept. of Haute-Loire, the place of coinage of a
denier with Podiensis. See Cat. Robert, No. 2267.
Lescun, a barony in Beam, the seat of a local coinage in or about
1374 ;
but no specimens are known or at least identified.
Les Hayons, Luxemburgh, Dept. of Noire-Fontaine. See La Vanette.
Lesina, Dalmatia, the place mentioned on a Venetian colonial bagattino
of the I5th c. with 5. Stephanvs Pont. Lesinensis. A Venetian
mint in 1549.
Leucha. See Toul.
Leuchtenberg, Bavaria, a landgraviat and doubtless independent mint
in the i6th but under imperial sanction. The is of rather
There is
c.,
peculiar and archaic type.
money
a batz of 1535 of Johann VI. with
lohan Langra In Levcht.
1574
pieces 5, 10, stuivers, the
Sch., Cat. ix. 1190-91. In the course of that and the preceding year
several pieces in silver and copper, including a liard of the hospital of St.
Leyden, not an ordinary and 20
mint;
made
but in
from an issue leaves of Books took place
of Hours.
of
Catherine, were struck.
Liege, the mint of the imperial coins of the Hohenstaufen dynasty
struck for Flanders in the loth and nth centuries, and one of the long
series of prince-bishops down to the present century. Comp. Moresnet.
Liegnitz, a mint of the Dukes of Silesia in the I3th c., and of successive
rulers, including the Counts of Brieg and Dukes of Liegnitz-Brieg,
down to the end of the I7th c. The writer has a 6-groschen piece struck
by George Wilhelm, 1673. The Dukes also struck at Reichenstein.
The town acquired the right of coinage in 1425 from the King of Poland.
There are uniface hellers or pfennigen in 1622 with L.
Ligny, originally a fief detached from the county of Bar in 1231 as
the dowry of Marguerite, daughter of Henri II., on her marriage to the
Duke of Limbourg. Coins in gold, silver, and billon were struck here
in considerable proportions in the I4th c., including some of the money
of John of Luxemburgh, King of Bohemia. From letters of indemnity of
1376 we learn that at that time the dies for the coins struck by successive
C. of L. in the I4th c. agnels, francs a cheval, ecus d'or, nobles, gros,
and deniers were in the hands of a goldsmith named Guesclin le Charpentier.
Moneta De Lineio.
Lille, one of the Flemish towns which struck the maille at a very
early period with LI. It is mentioned as a place of coinage under
Baudouin V., Count of Flanders, 1036-67. Insvlae, quasi L Isle, occurs
on some pieces. The ecu de Navarre of Louis XV., 1718, was from this
mint, which was employed both by that king and Louis XVI. Pieces of
5, 10, and 20 sols in copper were struck by the French governor, M. de