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

Catalogue of European Mints 1 7 1
diocese, and of the provincial Government during the republican period.
The same Merovingian moneyer, Adalbertus, who worked at Durstede
and elsewhere, has his name on coins belonging to this place. During
the 1 8th c. Utrecht was one of the mints for the Batavian Republic and
the Dutch Indies. In 1812-13, Napoleon
I. struck pieces of 20 francs,
i
fr.,
and \
fr. ;
at that time Holland still formed part of the French Empire.
Utrecht is the mint of the present kingdom of the Netherlands. There
is a curious denarius of Otto van Gueldres (i3th c.), Bishop of U., as
Advocate of the See, and another of Bishop Willem van Gueldres, with the
bust of the Bishop on rev. and that of the Emperor Henry IV. (1056-
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106) on obv. A denier of Willem van Briig, 1054-76, presents on the rev.
one of the earliest views of a city on a mediaeval coin. There is a small
silver piece of PVederic of Baden, with Mon. Epi. Traicc. and the
/
date
1498. Schulman, Cat. v. 131, cites an obole of an early bishop of U.
struck in West Friesland. A botdrager or double groot of John of
Virenburg, Bp., 1364-71, is termed Moneta de Zalandia. We may notice
a rare leeuendaalder of 1578 with the shield supported by two lions, the
original type of the denomination, and between 1519 and 1606 several
unusual varieties of the daalder and \ daalder, and of the rose-noble and
\, some of the former with the portrait of William the Silent ;
also a piefort
of the gold rijder of 1620 differing from the current issue, and weighing
19 gr., and varieties of the double ducat in gold, 1683, 1706, 1742, etc.
Use's. Dept. of Card, a seat of Carlovingian, if not of Merovingian, coinage,
and opened as an episcopal-capitular mint in the gth c. It
appears
that in the I2th (1145) the chapter alienated its share in part to the
Seigneur d'Uzes. There is an obole of Bishop Raymond III., 1208-12,
with Use on rev.
Valence and Die, Dept. of Drome, two episcopal mints from 1157 to
1456, when the seigniorial rights were ceded to the Crown. Valence was
united to Die in 1276. Gros, \ gros, carlins, and deniers. The money
of Die, before the union of the dioceses, reads Civitas Diensis ; that of
Amede'e II. of Saluzzo, 1383-90, has A. De : Saluc. Administrator
Ecclesiar. &* Comitat. D. Valenc. E. Dn.
Valencia, a Visigothic mint, and one of the early Kings of Arragon,
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3th c. Valencie Maioricarvm. And of the Kings of Spain. V.
Valenciennes, an occasional mint of Louis le Debonnaire, and of the
Emperors of the West (i4th c.). See Cat. Robert, 1886, Nos. 31, 32. Two
variant thalers of Louis of Bavaria (1314-47) were struck here. Also the
place of coinage of some of the Counts of Hainault and of Flanders, and of
the Dukes of Burgundy. Some of the money of Margaret of Constantinople
(1244-80), and Jean d'Avesnes (1280-1304) of Hainault, belongs here.
Under the later Counts it became an important mint, and from the time
of Gtiillaume III., 1356-89, the sole one. In 1793 a piece of 3 livres in
bell-metal was struck during the siege of the town by the Duke of
York.
Valetta, the mint of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem after their
by Charles V. in 1530 with the Island of Malta, and down to
the close of the i8th c. There is a rare silver ingot struck as money of
necessity during the siege of 1799.
Valladolid, a place which appears under the initial V. on certain coins
of the Counts of Urgel, I3th c.,
with Urgellensis, Comes Urgelli, etc. At
a somewhat later period the bishops appear to have had some interest in
the coinage, on which occurs a crozier. Low values only.