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

Catalogue of European Mints 147
abbess, 1617, and a \ thaler on the death of Anna Dorothea of Saxe-
Weimar, lady-abbess, 1704.
Quentovic, Artois, a Merovingian and Carlovingian mint, and one of
the Counts of Flanders by the concession of Charles le Chauve. It is
mentioned in the Edict of Pitres, 864. See Cat. Robert, 1886, No. 280,
where an esterlin reading Cventovici is ascribed to Cnut I., King
Denmark and of
Northumbria, but more probably belongs to his son
Charles. See Encre.
Quimperle, Brittany, a mint of John IV., Duke of B., 1364-99. Kiper.
Keperlet.
Ragnsa, Dalmatia, the seat of an almost unbroken republican coinage
from the I2th to the close of the i8th c. The earliest money belonging
to this place appears to be the silver grosso with the figure of St.
Blazius ;
the latest pieces, silver thalers, were struck down to 1798. One
before us has a female head evidently copied from the portraits of Maria
Theresa, though intended for the goddess of liberty. The perpero and ^
p. and the Venetian mezzanine were also at successive periods current
here ;
but neither proceeded from the local mint.
Ragusa, Sicily, an ancient town, to which, rather than to the cognominal
place in Dalmatia, should be referred the copper coins modelled
(like the augustale of Frederic II.) on the classical type, and (we apprehend)
improperly described as follari. One before us (nth or I2th c.),
found in the Island of Sardinia, has on obv. a head intended for the city
with Moneta Ragusii, and on rev. a castle and Civitas Ragusii.
Rambervillers, Vosges, the place of origin of certain anonymous
episcopal coins of the I3th c. possibly of the Chapter of Metz.
Randerode, or Randerath, 10 m. N.W. of Juliers, a seigniorial mint of
the I4th c.,
where the gros tournois was imitated by the local lords. Sch.,
xii. 504, and xiv. 319.
Randers, Jutland, a Danish mint, I2th c. Ranrosia, Radrvsias.
Ratisbon (Regensburg\ Bavaria, the seat of imperial, ducal, and episcopal
coinage, and subsequently of an urban series under the control of
the Dukes of Bavaria and the See of Ratisbon. There is a denier of
Henry I., 995-1004, struck at this mint. We have before us a curious
sede vacante thaler of 1787 with the shields of all the bishops and a
mitred bust of the deceased one, enclosing the papal type of St. Peter, with
the keys, in a boat.
Ratzeburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, formerly an episcopal See, now a
principality, partly in Denmark. There is a thaler probably struck here
in the I7th c.
Ravenna, a mint of the later Byzantine Emperors, of the Ostrogothic
Kings (5th-7th c.), of the Lombard Dynasty, of the Bishops in
with conjunction
Charlemagne, of anonymous Archbishops, 1 3th- 1 4th c., (perhaps) of
the Republic of Venice, and of the Popes at two or three intervals of time.