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

144 The Coins of Europe
hours during the Revolution, with Repvbblica Romano. Pervgia A. VII.,
and on rev. Scvdo within a wreath. Rossi had a copper proof, said to
be unique.
Pesaro, Italy, Prov. of Urbino-e-Pesaro, the place of coinage of the
money of a branch of the Sforza family, which held the principality in
the 1
5th- 6th 1 c. There is a very finely executed copper sesino of
The sovereigns of Urbino, the Borgia, and
Giovanni Sforza (1489-1510).
Leo. X., also used this mint. Giovanni Sforza struck silver money here,
as well as that in bronze or copper. A piece in the former metal has on
rev. a standing figure of St. Paul and Pavlo Cvstodi. The copper
coinage is of more than one type. Armand (Mcdailleurs Italiens,
ii.
1
18) mentions a sesino without a reverse, ascribed to Francia. If so, both
this and the one figured in the text were from the same hand, as well as
the silver. The coins and medals with the legends Patria Recetita,
Securitati Pvblicae, etc., appear to be referable to the period of Sforza's
restoration (1503-10), which would suit Francia.
Petersheim, near Maestricht, the seat of a coinage of oboles by
Willem, Seigneur of P. in the beginning of the 1
i4thc., with Wies . De.
Petersem.
Phalsburg and Lixheim, Meurthe, a principality erected by the
Emperor Ferdinand II. in 1621 in favour of Henriette, sister of the Duke
of Lorraine, wife of the Baron d'Ancerville, son of the Cardinal de Guise.
The mint, presumably established here, struck some very well-executed
coins in silver and billon with the bust of the Princess. The Lorraine
types were more or less imitated.
Piaccnza, a Lombard mint (7th-8th c.), and one of the Emperors
(i2th-i4th c.),
of Giovanni da Vigriate, Lord of P. (1410-13), and of the
Popes (1513-45). A single piece, a silver grossetto, reading Placentia
Avgvsta, and on rev. Redemptio Nostra, commemorates a brief interval
of autonomy in 1 500. The city was subsequently a seat of the coinage
of the Farnesi, Dukes of Parma, and fell in succession under the power
of the Empress Maria Theresa, the Duke of Savoy, and the Parmesan
branch of the Bourbons.
Pierre-Chatel, Vaud, Savoy, a mint of Louis II. (1302-50). There is
a double parisis with Lvdovuvs de Sa\baudia\, and on rev. Man. Pet.
Castri. It appears to have struck money down to 1359.
Pinerola, Piedmont, the place of coinage of the Princes of Achaia of
the house of Savoy, 1334-1400.
Piombino, an urban mint by virtue of an imperial grant,
1 509, and a
place of coinage of the Appiani and Ludovisi (1594-1699). Pr. Plumb.
or PL Comp. Lucca.
Pisa, a republican mint under imperial authority (i2th-i4th c.), of
Charles VIII. , King of France (1494-95), of a second republican period,
and of the Medici and their successors in the grand-duchy of Tuscany.
Some very beautiful coins bear the name of Pisa as the place of origin,
and there are a few small silver pieces, without the title of any ruler, about
1714 perhaps municipal currency. These have on obv. the Virgin and
Svp. Onines Speciosa, and on rev. a cross with Aspice Pisas. There is a
danaro or mezzo-grosso of the Emperor Henry VII. with Pise on rev.,
which was doubtless struck before his death in August, 1314, at Ronconvento,
near Sienna.
Pistoia, Tuscany, a mint of the Lombard Kings, 7th c.
Pithiviers, or Pluviers, France, Dept. of Loiret, a mint of Philippe
I.
of France, 1060-1 108.