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

134 The Coins of Europe
the Kings of Arragon, the Kings of Majorca (a branch of the house of
A.), and the Bourbon dynasty in France. Montispesulanum. The town
and signiory were sold to France in 1349 for 120,000 gold e"cus. Comp.
Castelnau.
Montr euil-Bonnin, Poitou, a mint of the Counts of P., I3th c. In
1267 the mint-master was adjudged to pay a penalty of 1250 livres
tournois for deficiency of standard.
Mont Saint Michel, near St. Omer, a mint of the King of France,
while that of Normandy was in English hands about 1420.
Monsa, in the Milanese, a seat of seigniorial coinage. Ettore
Visconti, 1412-13.
Moresnet, Belgium, Prov. of Liege, where perhaps was struck in 1848
certain money for the Free Commune of Moresnet under the protection
of France and Prussia with a curious Janus head of the two monarchs,
Louis Philippe and Fred. William IV. We have before us two types of
a 2-franc piece.
Aforlaijc, Brittany, a place of coinage of the ancient Counts of Beam
and of the Kings of Navarre from the nth to the I7th c. Beam was
united (with Navarre) to the Crown in 1607. It
appears that at one
period the office of mint-master to the Counts was hereditary, and that a
dispute between him and Gaston V. about 1160 was settled by the ordeal
of iron, the moneyer (Geraud) paying 100 sols and a tithe of his emoluments
(probably for the current year) to the Priory of Sainte-Foy de
Morlaix. The latter, by a grant of 1077, was entitled to a tithe of the
whole revenue arising from the coinage. The mint here was situated in
the Hourquie (Lat. Furcia), the name and site of the present place for
holding the fairs this word
; explains the legend on some of the coins
Onor Forcas.
Moscow, the principal mint of the Grand-Dukes of Muscovy and of
the Czars of Russia from the i6th c. to 1724. There were at least four
mints there. Comp. Kief.
Moiisson, or Pont-a-Monsson, Lorraine, a seat of coinage of the Dukes
of Bar, I4th Two c. pieces of Henri IV., Duke of B., 1337-44, were
struck here. Motions. See Cat. Robert, 1886, Nos. 1167 and 1530. It
seems also to have been a mint of the Abbey of St. Vannes at Verdun ;
subsequently annexed to the See of Reims.
Moiizaivc, a chateau and mint of Wenceslas I., first Duke of Luxemburgh,
1353-83. Movzadies.
Mouzon. See Reims.
Moyenvic, Dept. of Meurthe, France, the place of coinage of certain
anonymous episcopal coins of the I3th c.
Mue, or Le Mue, a town in France, to which is referred a gros tournois
of Philip le Bel (1285-1314) with Mvdencis Civfs.
Muhlhausen, or Muhlhaus, Alsace, a mint of the Emperors and ot
the early Landgraves of Thuringen, and a place of coinage down to the
1 8th c. There is a remarkable piece of Frederic Barbarossa (1155-90)
belonging here, with Fridericvs Imperator Mvlehvsigensis. Denarivs,
and the Emperor on horseback. The grosch, pfennig, and heller
were struck here. Milhvsina.
Muhlheim, a mint of the Counts and Dukes of Berg, I4th-I5th c., of
the Dukes of Cleves, I4th c., and of the Dukes of Juliers and Berg,
1
5th- 1 6th c. Some very early dated pieces were coined here from
1482.
Mtinchen, or Munich, since the i8th c. the capital of United Bavaria,