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

176 The Coins of Europe
here or at Augsburg. At the latter place was published the wellknown
collection of portraits
:
Fuggerorum ct Fuggerarum Imagines,
folio, 1593.
Well, near Lidge, the possible place of coinage of Jan van Arendal
and of the Seigneurs of Rheidt and Well (i5th c.).
Wels feil. See Laroche.
Wendcn, Livonia, a mint of the Order of Livonia, who also struck
money in gold and silver, sometimes in conjunction with others, at Riga
and Revel.
Werden and Helmstadt, Prussia, in the circle of Duisburg, an abbatial
mint in the Middle Ages, and down to the i8th c. The schellings of
Campen were copied here. A piece of 6 sous on the Dutch model of the
Abbot Hugo d'Assindia is cited by Sch., xiv. 617. Comp. Ludinghausen.
Werl, Prussian Westphalia, a mint of the Counts of Recklinghausen
and of the See of Cologne. The latter money (in copper, 1602) bears the
arms of the town a key on a cross.
Wernigcrode, Prussian Saxony, a mint of the independent Counts,
whose castle lies a little distance from the town, from the I3th to the
1 8th c. The earliest issue was of bracteates. There is a conventiongulden
of this place, 1 764.
Wertheim, Baden, the place of coinage of pfennigen of silver struck
by the Counts by virtue of an imperial licence granted in 1363, and of
money of the Counts of Stolberg and of Loewenstein-Wertheim. Werthen.
Wesel, a mint of the duchy of CleVes, I4th-i5th c.
Wesscrn, Limbourg, a mint of the Seigneurs of Homes in the I3th c.
Westphalian Mints (minor) Alen, Anholt, Beckum, Eversberg,
:
Halteven, Mark, Stadtberg, Stromberg, Tecklenburg, Telger, Vlotho,
Vreden, Werne, Winterberg.
Wezct, a mint of the Lords of Reckheim. Here the Netherland
contrefa