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

II.
CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN
DENOMINATIONS
The items marked * have been taken from Mr. Peter Whelan's Numismatic
Dictionary (1856), as they stand, the writer not having met with them. He
regards many as very doubtful, and others are almost certainly incorrect ;
the
latter category we have, as a rule, rejected.
Abbaze, a special silver currency struck by Russia for Georgia, consisting
of 5, i, and 2 abb. i8th c.
*Abra, Polish silver, value is.
Achtentwintig, a silver coin worth 28 stivers. There is also the half.
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7th c. W. Friesland, Emden, etc. There is an Italian imitation of the
Emden type. See Sch. v. 582.
Achtstuiverstuk, a piece of 8 stivers. i6th c. Brabant. There is
also the tienstuiverstuk or 10 stivers, etc.
Achtsehner. See Zeyner.
Affonsim or grosso affonsim, the 4-dinheiro piece of Alfonso V. of
Portugal, 1438-81. There is the half.
Agnel. See Mouton and Lam.
Albertin, a silver coin so called from Albert, Archduke of Austria,
Governor of the Netherlands, in conjunction with his consort Isabella.
The busts are either accollated or vis-a-vis. There is the double.
Albertin, a gold coin of the same princes and type, with the two
busts facing each other on the Spanish model.
Albulo da S. Pietro, a billon coin of Lucca under republican rule, of
the Ofto type. The rev. has a full-length figure of St. Peter with the
keys.
Albus, i.q., blanque, blanc, bianco, bianco, witpenning, a billon or plated
coin, current in Germany and the Low Countries from the I5th A c.
mannheimer gulden of 1608, of which there is the half, is described as
being worth 26 albus. Apiece of two albus of Orange-Nassau, 1684, is
cited by Schulman, Cat. v., No. 494. Comp. Raderalbus. The city of
Cologne struck pieces of 4 and 8 albus.
Alfonsino, a name by which the gold florin of Alfonso I., King of
Arragon, Sicily, and Naples (1433-58), is supposed to have been known or
recognised.
Alfonso, the gold Spanish piece of 25 peseta struck under Alfonso
XII., 1871, etc.
*Allevure, Swedish copper, the lowest value.