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

164 The Coins of Europe
among which we may specify Griefswald, Rugen, Stargard, Stralsund,
and Wolgast. A schilling of Bogeslas X., Duke of Pommern, 1502, was
struck at S. also ; perhaps a grosch of Duke Franz, 1617, and a double
schilling of Bogeslas XIV., 1622.
Stevensiveerd, Gueldres, a mint of the Seigneurs of s' Heerenberg,
1
5th- 1 6th c. Sch., xi. 37. At a somewhat later epoch it struck the
copper dute or doit for local use. Comp. Berg.
Stezau, a fortress of Servia in mediaeval times, and the place of origin
of coins bearing Ctczauh.
Stockholm, an early place of coinage of the Kings of Sweden, with
and without the royal titles. A dickthaler of Stene Sture, the younger
(1512-20), reads on obv. Mone. Stockholm. 1512, and on rev. 5. Eric-vs
Stockholm or of 1573.
Rex Svecic. There is also copper money of the i6th c. with the name of
the capital only.
Stolbcrg, Pruss. Saxony, circle of Merseburg, the place of origin of
bracteates of the i2th or i3th c., with a stag to 1., of later uniface pieces,
with a stag's head and Stol. or Stalb., and from the concession of a grant
in 1467 to the Counts, the seat of a considerable coinage in gold, silver,
and copper. The thaler and its divisions, first struck in 1544, the
kreutzer and batz and their multiples, and the albus, were current here,
and the gold ducat. The gold
is
very rare. A ducat of 1743 shews on
the obv. a stag with his horns entangled in a pillar ;
but a very beautiful
one of 1818, struck to commemorate the golden wedding of Christian
Friedrich, exhibits a free stag on obv., and on rev. /. Ducat. D. XI. Nov.
1818. There were two or three branches of this house Stolberg-Stolberg,
Stolberg-Rochefort, and Stolberg-Weringerode of which all had the
coining privilege.
Straeten. See Saint-Andri,
Stralsund, Pomerania, the seat of the coinage of Jasomar II., Prince
of Rugen, and of convention-money between it and other towns in the
duchy. There are very early pieces, both in silver
on obv. an arrowhead, and Moneta Svndensis.
and billon, bearing
Strasburgh, Alsace or Elsas, a Carlovingian or Frankish mint.
There is a denier of Pepin le Bref, 8th c., struck there. The episcopal
coinage under imperial authority, and with the secular titles, commenced
pursuance of a concession from Louis the German in 873. The bishops
began by placing a crozier in the field, and then their initials in the legend
of the coinage and there is an
; engraving in Cat. Robert, 1886, No. 1754,
of a well-executed denier of Bishop Odbert (906-13). The gros tournois
was current here in a local imitation at an early date. In the nth c.
these powerful prelates substituted their own names and effigies for those
of the suzerain (965-92), perhaps by virtue of an amplified grant from