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

404 The Coins of Europe
Burgundy even after the succession of Maximilian in 1477.
There is an inedited gold florin of Philip II. of Spain, 1576,
with Phs D G Hisp Rex Co Hoi and the date on reverse,
and on obverse the quartered shield between two Ps
and Dominvs Mihi Adivtor.
Counts of
West Friesland
The long-established topographical distinction between
East and West Friesland, of which the latter alone falls
within the immediate category, was possibly unrecognised
in former times, when not merely the nomenclature but the
territorial distribution was so different. As in the case of
the Counts of Holland, the list of the dynasts of West Friesland
and the original nature of the currency circulating there
are equally obscure and unsatisfactory. The Merovingian
tremissis, reading Avdvlfns. Frisia, seems to import the
names of a moneyer and the district ;
but the latter may
have been either this or the other one, then known under
a general designation. A denier of Conrad II., however,
with the word Fresonia, more than probably appertains to
the same region, and is
ordinarily accepted and claimed by
Dutch numismatists as a numismatic product of North
Holland. Of the autonomous counts the money goes no
farther back than Bruno III., 1038-57, and at that time
the denier bore the names of the emperor and local sovereign
on opposite sides. But his successor, Egbert I., suppressed
the imperial symbols, and inserted only Egbertvs
and a cross. Egbert II., the third and last of the dynasty
recorded, substituted a crowned full-faced bust and Ecbertvs,
legbertvs, or Vecbertvs, and on reverse the full-face heads of
St. Simon and St. Jude. The early mints were Stavoren,
Dokkum, Leeuarden, Bolswerd, Gernrode, and Winsum.
During the interval which elapsed between 1090 and
the formation of the Federal Union in 1579, there is
nothing beyond the Saxon currency for Friesland and as
;
this reads dubiously Saxon. Fris., Frisie., etc., we cannot be
sure whether West or East Friesland is intended, or both.