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

3 1 8 The Coins of Europe
are others of Bernhard II. (c. 1010-60) with Lvvnibvrhc and
supposed restrikes or imitations in the eleventh century of
similar pieces exhibiting the name of Vichmann or Wigman
II.
(944-67). Why, if such were the case, money of the
See p. 231.
tenth century was reproduced in the following one, we do
not learn ;
but we know that from the latter date the
obscurity and difficulty decrease. The fifteenth century
witnessed the introduction of the grosch and the thaler at
Brunswick, and the dukes associated themselves in course of
time with some of the noblest and grandest monuments in