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

34 The Coins of Europe
nised. The Bohemian thalers range in date from 1518
to 1525, and were continued by the Counts of Schlick ;
there is a double one (doppelter zwitter thaler) of Stephen,
1526.
Of the history of the coinage subsequently to the
devolution of the crown on Ferdinand of Austria in 1527,
there is not much to be predicated beyond the remarkable
series of raitgroschen or ritgroschen in copper, struck for
this part of the empire about I 5 70. We have met with the
other salient feature
dates 1572, 1583, and 1605 the ; only
under the present section is the brief and limited currency
of Frederic, Count Palatine of the Rhine, during his more or
less nominal tenure of the regal title in the years 1619-20.
The career of Frederic forms a chapter in the Thirty Years'
War and from his nearness
; by marriage to the Stuarts,"
these numismatic relics derive a special attraction in the
eyes of Englishmen and Americans. He appears to have
issued nothing beyond silver pieces of 48 and 24 kreutzer.
Of the latter there are two distinct types : one dated 1619,
with the lion of Bohemia on reverse and a crown on obverse ;
the other with a portrait and a shield of arms, and the
date
Frederic of Bohemia :
24 kreutzer, 1620.
1620. The larger coin, also belonging to 1620, bears a
different bust. All are uncommon. Some of the later
Austrian copper money for Bohemia exhibits the value and
date on one side and the lion on the other, dispensing with
a legend. A pfenning of this class before us has I P.
1758.
In the Italian section, under VENICE, we propose to