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

454 The Coins of Europe
Gvb. Reip. Genv. About the middle of the seventeenth
century a coinage took place of genovini of large module of
the Virgin and Child type in gold and silver, possibly in
imitation of the 50 and 100 real pieces of Spain; these
productions are not artistically remarkable, and seldom occur
in good state. The Virgin and Child was a favourite pattern
here; a crosazzo of 1677 places a sceptre in Our Lady's
right hand, and reads T*L*M*Et Regc Ros Of copper
money there is very little ;
the earliest which we have seen
belongs to 1773, and may be a half soldo. It may be open
to question whether a 4 denari of 1797 should be assigned
In common with most of the Genoese
here or to Sardinia.
money after 1793, it has the Savoyard arms crowned, but,
except the value, Quattro D. and date, is anepigraphic. The
4 and 2 soldi, 1814, are billon, not copper. Of the Franco-
Italian coins we shall speak presently.
Some very characteristic and picturesque pieces of the
end of the fifteenth and commencing years of the sixteenth
century associate themselves with this old feudal government,