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

Catalogue of Eiiropean Denominations 195
Dicken of Schaffhausen, 1633.
Dickgroschen, the thick type of the grosschen.
Dickpfenning, a billon coin of Strasburgh-in-Elsas, 1 7th- 1 8th = c. 6
baetzner, and apparently
= 48 deniers.
Dickthalcr, the Austrian thaler of small and thick fabric, dated 1484,
with the portrait of the Archduke Sigismund. There is the half of the
same type. Later thalers of Mansfeld, etc., bear the same designation.
There is a dickthaler of Schaumburg-Lippe, 1765. A double dickthaler
of Munster, 1647, is cited by Sch., Cat. ix. 606. A most rare dickthaler
of Hamburgh, 1505, is
described as being a i^ markstiick.
Dijonnois, the local term assigned to the Burgundian money struck at
Dijon.
Dinar, pi. dinara, silver currency of the modern kingdom of Serbia or
Servia. A dinar is = 100 para. There are pieces of 5, 2, and i dinar
and 50 para in silver, and of 10 and 20 dinara in gold.
Dinerillo, a small copper coin of Philip III. and IV. of Spain, and of
Louis XIII. and XIV. of France, struck for Valencia, I7th c. It seems
to be identical with the dineruelo, said by Whelan to be current in
Arragon.
Dinero, the Spanish denier, struck for Navarre, I7th c., and the
Balearic Isles, 1
7th- 1 8th c. The term was employed in Spain to signify
money generally, like the French argent.
Diiilieiro, the Portuguese denier. A copper coin of the 1 1
5th- 6th c.
One. of John III. (1521-57) is offered by Schulman, Cat. xi. 774. But the
piece was struck by Alfonso V. (1438-81). It was suggested, perhaps, by
the copper currency of Castile and Leon under John II.
Dinher, a gold coin of the Arab Emirs of Sicily, nth c.
DioboloS) two oboloi.
= 10 lepta.
Currency of the modern kingdom of Greece
* 'Ditto Bolo [? diobolo\ Ionian Islands, copper.
Dixatn, a billon coin of the reign of Louis XII., equivalent to the
Karolus of his predecessor. A piece struck in bell-metal in 1791 during
the French Revolution = -fa of the Itvre, and the prototype of the decime.
Dobla, a double scudo or piece
= 16 silver lire of Genoa, I7th c. On
the obv. the Virgin is crowned by two angels.
Doblen^a, or duplo, a denomination of the ancient Counts of Barcelona.
Dobler, a copper coin, double dinero, of Spain, struck for the Balearic
1
Isles, 6th- 1 8th c.
Doblon, the double escudo, a familiar Spanish gold coin = 5 silver
piastre. There are the doblon de a cuatro and the d. de a ocho or onza
= about ^3
:
45. Said to have been struck for Mexico.