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

Catalogue of European Mints 175
Vollenh'oom, Overijssel, the place of origin of a J groot of Jan van
Diest, Bishop of Utrecht, 1322-41.
Volterra, Tuscany, a seat of episcopal coinage, 1 3th- 1 4th c. Only
pieces of low value with De. Volterra, or D. Vvlterra.
Vroenhof. See Maestricht.
Wadstena, or Wadstein, E. Gothland, the place of origin of a square
4-mark piece struck by the Dukes of Finland and Sodermanland during
the war with Eric XIV., 1568.
Waelhem, near Malines, the mint of Philippe de Bourgogne during his
administration of the duchy of Brabant for Jean IV.
Walcheren, Holland. The French defenders struck a piece in lead
in 1813 with Regiment de Valcheren during the siege by the English.
Waldeck, W. Germany, probably the mint of the principality of
Waldeck-Pyrmont. In Sch., xiv. 547, there is a remarkable gold ducat of
Christian and Wolrath IV., 1616. There is a very fine thaler of 1813.
There was probably a mint here in the beginning of the I3th c., if not
earlier.
Waldeck Mints (minor)
: Arolsen (1732-1840), Corbach, I3th c. (Cvrbekec,
Corbeck, or Corbecia), Nieder-Wildungen.
Walincourt, Hainault, now Dept. of Nord, the place of coinage of
Guillaume I.,
Count of Hainault (1305-6), and of a gros of Jean, Seigneur
de W., probably struck in 1306-7, when he received the authority from
the Count, as the See of Cambrai promptly procured an injunction
against the mint as being within that diocese. The gros above mentioned
reads Johannes Dns. De Wai., and on rev. Moneta Nova Waullancort.
Wangen, canton of Berne. See Kyburg.
Waremme, prov. of Liege, a mint of Thibaut de Bar, Bishop of Liege,
1303-13.
Warendorf, probably the mint of the copper money (kupferdreier]
of the 1 6th- 1
7th c. bearing the name of the place. The earliest which we
have seen is a 12 pf. of 1594 with Stadt Warendorp and a portcullis.
Warsaw, formerly part of the kingdom of Poland, erected into a
grand-duchy by Napoleon I. under the government of the King of Saxony,
and now belonging to Russia ;
a mint of which little seems to be known.
A rare gold ducat of Frederic Augustus, King of Saxony, as Duke of
Warsaw, 1812, reads Aurens Nummus Ducat. Varsov. The revolutionary
money of 1831 was struck out of Poland.
Weerdt, Limbourg, 14 miles from Ruremonde, the chief mint of the
Seigneurs of Homes, 1 3th c. Philip de Montmorency struck a silver piece
here, copied from the type of the Bolognese lira, with Moneta Nova
Argen. D\pmint\ I\n\ W\eerdt\.
Weimar, Saxony, a grand-duchy formed in 1484. There is a series of
thalers and other pieces from the i6th c. down to the latter end of the
i8th c. There is a thaler of Friedrich Wilhelm and Johann, 1583, with
their portraits, and thalers and \ thalers of Amalia, Regent of Saxe-
Weimar and Eisenach, 1763. It is to this series and locality that we
have to refer the curious thaler of Johann Ernst II. and his seven
brothers with all their effigies (1605-20). Weimar was also a mint of the
Counts of Orlamiinde.
Weissenhorn, Bavaria, the place of origin of a gold florin of Anthony,
Baron of Fugger (1530-60), with a quartered shield and Ant. Fvgger D.
in Weissenhorn. There is a series of coins and medals of this great
house in both its branches, from the i6th to the i8th c., struck either