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

I. CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN MINTS
Aalborg, Alborga, Aalborgen, Alebv, etc., an ancient mint of the
Kings of Denmark, and one of the Kings of Sweden in the I7th c.
There is an Or of Gustavus Adolphus, 1627, struck there.
Aargau, Switzerland, a seat of cantonal coinage for the lower values
in batzen.
Aarhuus, in Jutland, a Danish mint in the 1 1
5th- 6th c. A coin of
Steno Storre (1470-97) reads Moneta Arvs. A piece of four skilling,
l
S3Si of Christian III., belonging here, has a half-length portrait of the
King and Christianus D.G. Elect. Rex Da.
Abbeville, a mint of the Counts of Ponthieu, I2th-i3th c. In 1283
Philip le Hardi accorded permission to Edward I. of England, as Count
of P., to strike money of the usual type and standard. Both Edward I.
and II., and perhaps even Edward III., issued coins, some of which have
a leopard as a difference, with Moneta Pontivi and Abbatis Ville, or
Abbeville. In 1291 Philip le Bel acknowledged the right of the commune
of A. to strike money and
; the reverses with Sit Nomen, etc., are
ascribed to this source.
Abo (since 1743 part of Russian Finland), an early Swedish mint.
Aboensis.
Acquabella, Savoy, the mint of the Bishops of Maurienne in the lothi
ith c.,
and possibly the place of coinage of the earliest Counts of Savoy,
of whom no money is at present identifiable prior to that of Umberto
(1091-1103). Aqvabella. It is worth suggesting that the A on many
Savoyard coins may stand for this place, or for Avigliana, though in
the field. The episcopal money was copied from the types of Vienne in
Dauphiny.
Acqui, Piedmont, 17 miles S.S.W. from Alessandria, a place of coinage
in the I2th-i3th c. There is a silver danaro with Fredric (?
Frederic
Barbarossa), and (in the field) I. P. on obv., and on rev. Aqve. In the
1 4th c. episcopal money was coined here. There is a matapan of Otto
Belingeri (1305-10) with Odonvs Aqvesis.
Aerschot, S. Brabant, 18 miles N.E. from Brussels. The place of
coinage, doubtless, of the early Dues d'Aerschot, though possibly at a
period the money may have been struck at Brussels itself. We
have only met with jetons and medals ;
but the administrative machinery
indicated on one of these pieces, with lect. De La Chambre Des Compt.
Dv Dvc, and the law of analogy, unite in supporting the idea of a local
currency, if only of copper and billon. Similar jetons, as we know,