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

Catalogue of European Mints 163
have the bust of St. Mayeul and a cross cantoned with D.B. (Dominus
Borbonensis].
Sonzdal, an early Russian mint.
Souzoun, an early Russian mint.
Spalatro, Dalmatia, the place of origin of certain small billon pieces
of the 1
3th c., with Spa Catt ino disposed in three lines on obv., and on
rev. a cross. In and after 1397 the Ban or Waiwode of Bosnia, on
behalf of Sigismund, King of Hungary, struck here various coins bearing
a shield with an armed arm and his titles as supreme waiwode or voyvode
of Bosnia and vicar of the kingdom of Lladislaus, and on rev. the
patron-saint, St. Dominus or Doimus. The grossi coined here by the
feudal dukes formed a source of trouble to Venice, as it was represented
in 1410 that the standard was below that of the Republic and injured her
interests.
Spanheim, a seigniorial mint of the Counts of Spanheim, I4th c.
Schulman, Cat. ix. 554, cites a gros tournois of Johan II. 1357-1403.
Spanish Mints. See ii.
Blanchet, 281.
Spira, an ecclesiastical mint for the Archbishops.
Spoleto, the place of origin of a bracteate danaro, struck on a large
flan, with Wido. Gragia. Di. Re. It was struck by Guido, Lord of Spoleto,
939-44, who probably occupied the ancient castle of the exarchs of
Ravenna. Spoleto also produced a few anonymous ecclesiastical coins
with Spoletanvs, or Spoleto, on rev., and was a place of papal coinage,
1
5th and i8th c. There are 2-baiocchi pieces of the Roman Republic,
1798-99, struck here.
Stadtberg. See Marburg.
Statt, prov. of Liege, a mint of Thibaut de Bar, Bishop of Liege,
1303-13.
Stavelot, or Siablo, Belgium, prov. of Liege, the seat of an abbey
said to have been founded in the 7th c. by Sigebert, King of Austrasia.
There is abbatial money of the i6th c. with the imperial titles on
rev.
Stavoren, on the Zuyder Zee, formerly a town of great importance, a
mint of the early Counts of West Friesland in the nth c. It is at
present an insignificant village.
Steenwijk, Holland, the seat of a coinage of necessity during the
siege by the French in 1580, and perhaps also during that by Maurice of
Nassau in 1591.
Stein, or Steyn, Austrian Illyria, a seigniorial mint of the I4th c.,
where the boetdrager of Louis de Maele, Count of Holland, was imitated.
Comp. Carin.
Stcnay, Lorraine, French dept. of La Meuse, a temporary mint of
Louis XIII. during his occupation of Lorraine, 1635-39. Comp.
Florence.
of the Mark or March of
Stendal, Prussia, formerly the capital
Brandenburg, and the mint of the early margraves from the I2th c.
There are groschen, pfennigen, and other low values, of Joachim and
Albrecht, struck there in 1513. The town acquired the right of coinage
in 1369. Standi.
Stettin, Pomerania, or Pommern, now part of Prussia, a mint of the
Dukes and Kings of Poland and of the independent Dukes of Pommern,
1 2th- 1
7th c. The duchy was divided between S. and Wolgast in 1295,
and reunited in 1625. There is a profusion of early bracteates with an
infinite variety of designs. The Dukes had nearly thirty other mints,