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

Descriptive Outline of the Coinages of Europe 3 1 1
others of his successors down to Frederic III. or the Wise
(1486-1500). Frederic whose prudent government, first in
conjunction with relatives, and ultimately alone, promoted
the numismatic in common with the political welfare of
his country, issued from the mint at Colditz (?)
the first
Saxon thaler, which was known as the gulden groschen, and
of which there are two or three varieties. Of that which we
engrave the obverse and reverse are taken from two specimens,
where the differences are immaterial, for the sake of the
more perfect rendering of the type but in a
; third, which
Frederic struck with his own bust and name only, an important
novelty occurs in the claim of the duke to be
lieutenant-general of the empire. On these coins, and those
which succeeded them an evolution from certain rude
productions of Pomerania and Poland, as the latter were