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

172 The Coins of Europe
Vannes, a mint of John I. le , Roux, 1237-86 of
; John IV., 1364-99 and
; of John V., 1399-1442, Dukes of Brittany. Veneten, or Urbs Venetensis.
Varennes, a mint of the See of Verdun, and the place of origin of a
\ gros of Cardinal Louis, Duke of Bar, with Semgros. Varen.
Vasto, Abruzzi, a fief and perhaps mint of the Marquis Cesare d'Avalos,
1706. Mar. Vasti.
Vaud, or Waadt, a separate canton of Switzerland since the present c.
The Savoyard deniers and other money struck within this territory from
1273 to 1536 probably belong to Geneva or Lausanne some of them are
;
marked with IV. The cantonal coinage dates only from the present
A c.
silver ecu of Louis XVI., 1792, is countermarked to pass for 40 batzen
or 4 franken within this district.
Vauvillcrs, Haute-Saone, the seat of a seigniorial mint, denounced by
an edict of 1554 as the source of unlicensed imitations of the regal and
imperial types the carolus of
; Besanc.on was copied. Chatelet in the
Vosges was included in the charge. But there seems to have been an extensive
coinage in all metals at the latter place. A denier of Gauthier de
Beauffremont has Mo. Ar. Sup. Vvsis. Nicole 1 1. du Chastelet, 1525-62,
struck t'cus an soldi and many other types with Nicolaus du Chastelet,
or Nicol. A Castelleto Sup. Vusis, and Moneta Dni DC Vaui'illers. The
Hard and double Hard were struck here. The known coinage seems to
be limited to these two persons.
Vendomc, originally belonging to the county of Anjou, and supposed
to have been at one time an appanage of the See of Chartres, whose prelates
were seigneurs of the Chateau of V. Reunited to the Crown in
1712. In this town and district use was long made of the currencies of
Tours and Angers, and the autonomous coinage cannot be referred to a
date anterior to the middle of the I ith c. The Counts, afterwards Dukes,
of V. did not place their name on the money till the I3th c. The earlier
types are imitations of those of Chartres and Blois the later shew
;
the
influence of Tours. Vindocino Castro, Udon Caosto, or Vedome Castr.
An obole, thought to indicate a monetary convention between the Count
of V. and the Vicomte de Chateaudun in the I3th or i4th c., reads on
obv. Idvni Castr., and on rev. Vidodnensis. The alliance was probably
of some duration, as the crescent of C. appears on many of the ano\iymous
coins of V.
Venice, possibly the place of coinage of some of the numerous (twentyfour)
varieties of danaro published by our valued and erudite correspondent
Count Nicolo Papadopoli (whose numismatic labours are so widely
known), and issued more or less under imperial authority between the 9th
and 1 2th c., and from the latter date till the close of the Republic the
seat of an autonomous mint. Pieces in all metals were struck here in
1848, and it was an occasional mint of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom.
Venrade, Brabant, a mint belonging to the Heeren of Kessel. Sch.,
Cat. ix. 384.
Venray, 21 m. N. of Ruremonde, a mint of the Dukes of Gueldres
and Juliers, I5th c. A double groot of Raynald IV., Duke of Gueldres,
1402-23, was struck here. It was for some time an active mint.
Ventimiglia, Sardinian States, a seigniorial fief. Gio. Requesco,
Count, 1725.
Vercelli, a seat of autonomous coinage, i3th c.,
under imperial
sanction, and a mint of the Dukes of Savoy, 1 6th- 1 7th c. Vcr., or V.
Verdun, France, Dept. of Meuse, a somewhat prominent Merovingian
mint, and subsequently one of the emperors from Louis le Ddbonnaire to