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

Descriptive Outline of the Coinages of Eitrope 337
extends from 1204 to 1437, when the see was held by
Louis, Duke of Teck or Teschen.
The independent Dukes of Carinthia had their mint at
Carniola or Laibach. Special money was struck by the
Krain. former Emperors of Austria for the duchy.
A margraviat, with denarii and pfennings, from the
tenth to the fifteenth century. After the union with
Austria the title appeared among those on some
of the coins of the arch-dukes, the multiplicity of
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their dignities rendering
it difficult to include the
whole story on every piece or issue. Probably the money,
where Moravia is specified, was intended for circulation
there, and the later Emperors of Germany struck special
issues for the margraviat.
Of all the states composing the Austrian dominions
Styria becomes the most interesting, when we look at the
fact that it seems to have been in advance of the
Stdermark rest ^ ^e arch-duchy in its numismatic development,
and to have possessed no money at any
period within accessible records except that of its counts,
margraves, and dukes, subsequently Dukes of Austria and
Styria or Steiermark. The gold coinage dates from 1491,
the copper from 1531, the thaler from 1574. The earliest
coinage appears to be the type of the denarius with Schilt.
von Steir. and a panther, which may represent the original
autonomous money prior to the final amalgamation with
Austria under the Arch-Duke Rodolph about 1278. This
margraviat or duchy possessed the heller and batz, the
pfenning, the zweier, and dreier, until in 1622 the marque
became the monetary unit, and there were pieces of 150,
75, 48, 15, and 12 marques, 300 marques being approximately
= i thaler.
In addition to the provincial coinages and those for the
Austrian Netherlands and Austrian Italy to be presently
described under succeeding sections, we have a piece of
6 kreutzer struck for Farther Austria in 1802, with Vord.
Oest. Scheid. Munz., and another of 7 kreutzer of the same
date, with the usual title and no legend on reverse ;
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