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

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existing numismatic remains of this
and other minor states
of the Netherlands, and the European continent generally,
bear to the original aggregate. It was at Namur itself that
the convention-money between the Count, Luxemburgh, and
Liege was struck about 1340.
The separate county of Loos is shewn to have existed
as a fief of the empire from the tenth century, when it was
Loos and granted to a son of the Count of Hainault. But
Rummen, not only
is the list of holders of the honour im-
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pej-fec^ opening with Arnold V. in I 107, but we
are without any numismatic remains of an autonomous currency
prior to Jean (1256-80), who, with his successors, had
a coinage principally borrowed from those of Liege, Brabant,
and Flanders. The moneyers of Jean himself, Petrus and
Georgius, who sign the pieces, struck nothing but mailles
and sterlings but the later counts
; gradually launched into
higher and more numerous denominations and the mone-
;
tary system had attained a somewhat similar development
to that of Liege when the cession of Rummen (part of the
territory) in 1331, and of the remainder of the fief in 1363,
to Arnold D'Orey, led to the seizure of Loos itself
by
Dalembroek
the Bishop of Liege four years after. There is
mone y f Godefroi, struck at Heinsberg, in which
he describes himself as God. de Los. Dns. de
Heinsb. A curious piece of Arnold VIII. (1280-1328)
bears its value as a double denier on its face in the words
Moneta Dvplex.
The lordship of Rummen, severed, as we have seen,
from Loos in 1331, grew into a flourishing state, and under
a succession of owners of the houses of D'Orey and Wesemael
built up a fairly notable numismatic record prolonged
to the close of the fifteenth century. Gold, silver, and
billon were current here, and the denominations were similar
to those of Loos ;
French and Flemish models were followed.
Arnold D'Orey himself (1331-64) put on his money Dns.
De. Qvaecbecke. Arn. de Orey or Ernol. Dns. Rvminen. On
a cromsteert of Jean I. of Wesemael (1415-64) there is
the curious legend Moneta Romanorvm. The last heiress of