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

184 The Coins of Europe
6th part of a dick-pfenning. There are also the drei baetzner or \ dickpfenning.
Bagattino, bagai, a trifle, a small bronze coin of Venice, first struck in
the earlier half of the I5th c., and largely employed for the colonies.
The type varied according to circumstances. Nicolo Trono (1471-3)
struck the double. The piece with Trono's name has the special interest
and importance of possessing a portrait of the Doge, attributed by
Armand to Antonello, and different from that on the lira Tron. The
bagattino was the Venetian unit in copper. There is the half of some
reigns. A bagattino of the I5th c. struck for Zara has a half-figure of St.
Simeon and Simeon Ivsti's Prof eta. The remarkable bagattino of Nicolo
Trono, 1471-1473, is conjecturally attributed to Luca Sesto or to Antonello,
contemporary moneyers at Venice and the same
; origin is claimed for
coin of
the lira Tron. Comp. Lira.
Baioccbella, a small billon Fano under papal government.
There are several varieties.
Baiocchetto, a small silver coin of the Farnesi, Dukes of Castro, i6th
c., with the effigy and of St.
name Savinus on rev.
Baiocco, the papal centime. 100 baiocchi are=i scudo. In 1712
Clement XI. issued a silver piece of 80 bai. During the revolutionary
periods, 1796-99 and 1848-49, a very varied series of baiocchi was struck by
Pius VI., Pius IX., the Roman republic, etc. That on circular flans in
white metal is said to have been struck at Paris.
*Bajoire, Genevese silver, value 45. 6d.
Banco, a standard of currency, which virtually came into operation in
the 1 6th c. when the Venetian banks were obliged to seek from the
Government power to avert failure by reducing the weight of the gold
ducat. In West Friesland, during the troubles with France, the authorities
instituted an artificial monetary standard termed Bank-paiement or
Bank-gelt, analogous to Banco. The latter expression constantly occurs
on the copper coinage of the north of Europe, and seems to be employed
as a mark of distinction from Courant. Schulman, xi. 95, cites a curious
piece, which he describes as a proof in piedfort, belonging to the West
Friesland series. It bears date 1677, and is inscribed with 6 Sittivers
Bank Payement.
It has been the practice of all countries for the Government
or Crown to tamper with the current silver and copper coin, and
profit by the difference in weight or alloy. English history has a fair
share to shew under this head, and a late Jewish Chancellor of the
Exchequer even went so far as to suggest an experiment on the gold by
introducing a half-sovereign token worth 8s. Comp. Bursarienzeichen.
Bano, the unit of the copper currency of the kingdom of Roumania.
There are pieces of i bano ; 2, 5,
and 10 bani. The bano = centime.
Barbarin, from barbe, in reference to the bearded face of St.
Martial, a billon coin of the Abbey of Saint-Martial, first struck at the
commencement of the i2th c., and copied by the Vicomtes de Limoges.
Obv. Scs. Marcial. Rev. Lemoricensis. Gui VI. V. de Limoges (1230-63)
endeavoured to replace it by an altered type with his own name in 1263 ;
and both were eventually replaced in the Viscomtd by an improved and
varied coinage, copied from the royal or the Breton money. See
Lemona.
Barbone, a silver coin of Lucca, i7th c., with the crowned and
bearded Sanctus Vultus.
Barbuda, a piece of 3 dinheiros, struck under Fernando I. of Portugal,
1367-83, representing on obv. a profile of the king, crowned and visored,