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

Descriptive Outline of the Coinages of Europe 441
10 lire, dated 1807, from the mints at Pisa and Florence,
and a mezzo-soldo without date. The Bourbon series itself
ends in 1860. Between 1737 and 1798 there are innumerable
productions of great merit in all metals, chiefly
emanating from Pisa, which continued to strike the money of
the grand -dukes almost to the last days of that regime.
Further particulars will be found in the Catalogues.
We have to refer to the Tuscan or Florentine section
the provisional coinage of 1859-61. We may specify the
florin of 1859 w ^tn the lion bearing the gonfalon on obverse,
and the legend Governo delta Toscana, the 5, 2, and I
centesimi of the same year with Re Eletto, and the 5 lire of
Vittorio Emmanuele II., dated Firenze, Marzo, 1861. A
5 centesimi of 1861 has the m.m. N. for Naples ; but, until
Rome became the capital, Milan was thenceforth the leading
seat of coinage.
There were several other states and cities of the mediaeval
and Renaissance epochs which emulated those of which
we have attempted some description, alike in political prestige
and artistic treatment of the coinage two features which
are frequently found in conjunction. These places were
Messina
Bologna
Malta
Ferrara
Pesaro
Modena and Reggio
Genoa
Mantua
Saluzzo
Milan
Parma
Naples.
. .. ( Palermo
Lucca
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In addition to the names here enumerated, it is very easy to
specify many others having
reference to more or less important
and continuous seats of coinage. As they are without
exception, it is hoped, included in the Catalogues, it may be
sufficient to group together such as were independent mints
of appreciable consequence
:
Amalfi Brescia Como Desana
Ancona Cagliari Correggio Faenza
Aquila Camerino Corte (Corsica) Gaeta
Arezzo Chieti Cremona Massa di Lunigiana