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

128 The Coins of Europe
Meddersheim, Hesse-Homburg, a mint of Adolf, Count Palatine,
1607.
Medcbach, Pruss. Westphalia, the place of coinage of deniers of the
Archbp. of Cologne, I3th c., with Civitas Medebeka.
Medola, Lombardy, ? a mint of the Dukes of Mantua, 1593-1626, as
Marquises of M. Marchio Medvla, or Medv.
Megen, N. Brabant, on the Maese, the source of a denier of John III.,
Duke of Brabant (1359-1415), with loh. Com. Meg. and on rev. Moneta
Megem.
Megyes, a Transylvanian mint under the independent waiwodes. M.
C\ivitas\
Mehun-sur-Yevre. See Celle-sur-Cher.
Meiningen, a mint of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen, I7th-i9th c.
Meissen, Saxony, a mint from the I ith c. of the Emperors, Margraves,
Bishops, and Burgraves. There appear to be only bracteates of various
types with Misni., and groschen with Grossvs Nows Misnensis. Some of
the money of the Margraves of Meissen or Misnia was struck at Leipsic.
Comp. Magdeburg.
Meisscnheim, Hesse-Homburg, a mint of various princes in the i5thi6th
c.
Mellc, Poitou, modern Dept. of Deux-Sevres, one of the numerous
Carlovingian mints, and that of which specimens from various finds are
least rare, so far as the deniers of Charlemagne are concerned. There is a
denier of this place struck in gold perhaps the earliest instance of the
modern practice and of what is termed in France apiece de plaisir. Pictai>i
Civis., and Mctzullo or Metvllo. The discovery of rich silver mines
in this vicinity is supposed to have led to the establishment of the mint,
which was also employed by the Counts of Poitou and by Richard I. of
England. There are deniers with Ricardus Rex and Pictaviensis disposed
on rev. in three lines. The last independent Count of Poitou was Alphonse,
brother of Louis IX., 1241-71, of whom there are deniers resembling
those of Richard. But there are deniers of Philippe de France, son
of Philip IV., 1311-16. See Salle-Lc-Roi.
Mende, the Mimatum of Gregory of Tours, cap. of the ancient episcopal
fief or county palatine of Gevaudan, and the seat of a coinage for the
county and diocese from the nth or i2th to the I4th c. The deniers, to
which the currency seems to have limited itself, bear the effigy of the patron
of the town and cathedral, and the premier Bishop, St. Privatus. The
resistance of the bishops on repeated occasions to attempted encroachments
on their right shews the profitable character of the latter. Mima
or Mimas Civitas.
Meppen, a mint of the Abbey of Corvey in Prussia, ioth-i2th c.
Mcran, capital of the ancient county of the Tyrol, and the mint of the
Counts down to the time of Sigismund of Hapsburg, Arch-Duke of Austria,
Margraf of Elsas, and Count of the Tyrol, who bequeathed his hereditary
dominions to Maximilian I. in 1496. There are denarii and grossi of
Meinhard I. and II. 1253-95.
Meraude or Poilvache, Duchy of Luxemburgh, a mint of the Emperors
Henry IV., 1280-88, and Charles IV., 1346-53, as Counts of L. Esmeravda
or Meravdiensis.
Merovingian Mints. The tentative catalogues of mints and moneyers
connected with this epoch and family of coins still remain very imperfect,
unsatisfactory, and obscure. Among hundreds of localities specified as
occurring on pieces a limited number is recognisable ;
but of the bulk the