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

1 82 The Coins of Europe
Alpha et Omega, an allegorical or figurative emblem, which presents
itself on many mediaeval coins of bishops and secular rulers, and which, like
other Western types, was imitated in a more or less degenerate form by
the moneyers of Northern and Eastern Europe. See p. 61.
Altininck, a Russian silver or billon piece of three kopecks struck
under Peter the Great and his immediate successors.
Alttnichlic, Turkish silver, value 35. 60 para.
Ambrosino, a name of the silver Florentine grosso of the first republic
(1250-1310), derived from the figure and name of the patron-saint on rev.
Angelet, a gold coin belonging to the Anglo-Gallic series. The halfsalute.
Comp. Engels.
Angevin, the term by which the money struck at Angers was known,
as distinguished from that of Tours. One of the earliest modern coins
with the denomination expressed
is a double angevin of Charles de
Valois, Count of Maine, with Anicvins. Dobles. on rev.
Angcvinc, or double gros, a denomination used for the double gros in
the diocese of Metz, 1 4th- 1 5th c. It was imitated at Verdun and in the
Netherlands.
Anglo-Gallic money, a very extensive series in gold, silver, and billon,
struck by the Kings of England as sovereigns of France from Henry II.
to Henry VI., by the Black Prince, and by the Regent Duke of Bedford.
Angster, a Swiss denomination (cantons of Schwyz and Lucerne), igth
century.
Anselmino, a silver type of Mantua, i6th c., from the effigy and name
of St. Anselm on rev. It seems to have been struck only under Vincenzo
and Francesco IV. Gonzaga (1587-1612).
*Aperbias, Maltese.
Aquilino, a small silver coin struck at Padua during the republican
epoch (1200-1300). It reads Padva Re&ia CIVITAS, and owes its name
to the eagle significant of imperial suzerainty. The same denomination
was struck at Treviso by the Count of Goritz (1319-1323).
Aquilino, a silver coin of Genoa of the i4th or I5th c. with Fidclivm
Imperii and an eagle with outstretched wings on obv., and on rev.
lanve et District. Remedi Cat. 1884, No. 1447, 320 lire.
Ardite, Spanish and Franco-Spanish currency of very low value, I7th
c. The Spaniard used " to say No vale un ardite."
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Arcndes groot. A Brabantine and Dutch coin of the I4thand following
centuries. Schulman, Cat. v., No. 228, cites the quarter of Louis IV.
of Loos.
Arendeschclling,?*. Dutch and Flemish coin of the i4th, 1 5th, and i6th
c. See Sch., Cat. 4, No. 297. There is the half.
Arendesrijksdaaldcr, a Low Countries denomination, like the preceding,
issued during the i6th c., probably from an Arensberg model.
There is one with the titles of Rudolph II. (1576-1612).
Argento, the name conferred on a silver coin struck by Pope Clement
V. at Carpentras, near Avignon, early I4th c. Cat. Rossi, 1880, No. 793,
and comp. No. 888, where a piece of similar appellation is cited as struck by
the Prince of Castiglione (Francesco Gonzaga, 1593-1616). The latter
seems to have been = ^ scudo d'oro.
Armellino, a silver coin of Guidobaldo II., Duke of Urbino (1538-74),
with an ermine to r. on obv. and the figure and name of St. Crescentius
on rev.
*Armoodi, Turkish gold.
Arnaldus or Arnaldensis, a small billon coin of the See of Auch or