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

Catalogue of European Mints 121
Lons-le-Saulnier, Dept. of Jura, formerly part of the Duchy of Burgundy,
an ancient town, whose fortifications are mentioned as having
been demolished in 1291 a
; Carlovingian and Burgundian mint, and
subsequently one within the jurisdiction of the See of Besangon. Its
operations, after some period of suspension, were resumed about 1120,
and there are coins belonging to this revival with Ledonis. VilL; and in
the field Be. The Counts of Macon and Vienne also struck money
here. There is a denier of Hugues IV., Duke of Burgundy, 1218-78,
belonging to this place. B\urgus\ Ledonis.
Loo, West Flanders, the source of a denier, I2th c., with an eagle and
Te Lo.
Loon, N. Brabant, near Ravenstein, an ancient feudal lordship.
There are coins of Arnould VIII., 1280-1328. Some of these, at least,
were most probably struck at Loon itself.
Comp. Hassell.
Loos, near Lille, a French or Brabantine mint in the nth c. and
later. It issued in the names of its local rulers esterlins, doubles tournois
in billon, and gros, with their divisions. Comp. Hasselt.
Loreto, or Loretto, Macerata, Italy, the place mentioned on an autonomous
danaro of the i4th c. with De Lavre Tvi., and on rev. Sea. Maria.
Louvain, S. Brabant, a place of great importance in former times,
and doubtless that of coinage of the deniers connected with it,
as well
as of the money of the earlier Dukes of Brabant. John III. (1312-55)
certainly employed this mint, as well as Philip le Hardi after his
marriage to the heiress of Flanders.
Liibcck, or Lijbeck, N. Germany, a mint in the earlier half of the I3th
c., by virtue of the imperial authority given in 1226. Deniers exist with
the double-headed eagle, the name of the Emperor, and that of the town.
In 1305 there seems to have been a monetary convention with Hamburgh
for the coinage of pfennigen. Gold money, described in a
document of 1339 as florenus aureus de Florencia, and on the pieces
reading Flore. Lvbtc., was struck here in evident imitation of the Italian
type. In 1403 and 1411 there were conventions with Wismar, Hamburgh,
Rostock, Stralsund, and Luneburg, for the fabrication of pfennigen
for common use. The earliest thaler was in 1528 the mint
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closed in 1801. Lvbica, or Lvbicens. An interesting early dated piece
is a 5 mark of 1506, with Qvadrans Marce Lvbtcem., 1506. There are |
or ort thalers of 1622, and \ thalers of 1632. We have for 1706 a silver
piece marked the ig2nd part of a thaler. The schilling was the money of
account; there are pieces of 16, 32, and 48 sch. courant.
Lucca [Flavia], a successive seat of coinage of the Lombard and
Frankish kings, of the marquisate and dukedom of Tuscany, and of the
imperial, republican, and seigniorial governments from the 7th to the iQth
c. Cat. Rossi, 1880, Nos. 1718-70. From 1342 to 1369^6 Pisani family
held the lordship. The rarest money connected with the city is that of the
Lombards, and of Hugo, Marquis of Tuscany, and of Hugo
II. and
Giuditta (Judith), Dukes of Tuscany (970-1001) there is a denaro of the
two ; latter with DvxTvscie and Ugo in a monogram on obv., and on rev.
Dvx Ivdita, and in the field L-vca. There are pieces (a tessera or token
of silver and a quattrino) attributed to the rule of Castruccio de' Castrucconi
(1316-28). The coins of the Napoleonic dukedom of Lucca
and Piombino were probably struck here. On the earlier types the
Sanctus Vultus, as it is called, in varied or modified form, seems to
be merely an idealised portrait of one of the emperors. It was introduced
in the I3th c.