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

70 The Coins of Europe
were issued in countless profusion by
all the continental Powers, especially
in France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Agen. See Aix-la-Chapelle.
Agen or Auch, a mint of Edward I. of England as Duke of Aquitaine,
c. 1 1 86 ; of the Bishops of A., 9th-i3th c. and of the Counts of Fezenzac
;
(nth c.), whose capital was here. Deniers of the latter read on rev.
Auscio Civ.
Agimont, near Givet, Ardennes, a seigniorial mint of Jean de Looz,
1280-1310, known from an esterlin with loh. Dns. De Agimot, and (on
rev.) Moneta Agimot.
Ahlen, Prussian Westphalia, a place to which the Bishop of Munster
accorded a license to coin copper money in 1597 the pieces bear a
:
winged eel, crowned.
Aire-sur-la-Lys, Pas de Calais, near St. Omer, formerly part of
Flanders, one of the places which struck the communal niailles, and
perhaps a mint of Baudouin IX., Count of Flanders, 1 194-1206. Ariensis
with a lion passant, or Aria. The place of origin of money of necessity
during the sieges by the French and Spaniards in 1641 under the Material
de Meilleray, and by the Allies in 1710. Of the former there is a
silver livre.
Aix-en-Provence, Bouches du Rhone, a Carlovingian mint (Aguis
urbs\ one of the Counts of Provence mentioned in a charter of 1146, and
an occasional place of coinage of the Bourbon Kings of France. A piece
of 12 sols, 1776, has the mark & for this place.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen or Agen (Aquis Grant, Aquensis, Aqvs),
a mint of the Carlovingian dynasty, subsequently of the Hohenstaufen
line. Here in 1422 was struck a gros, one of the earliest genuine existing
pieces with a date. At a later period was it the place of coinage of a long
series of civic or urban money in silver and copper. There is also siegemoney,
struck here in 1597 and 1670.
Aix-lcs-Bains, Savoy, a Savoyard mint, I4th-i5th c.
Aixe, near Limoges, the seat of a special coinage of Gui V., Viscount
of Limoges (1199-1230), who struck barbarins in his chateau there.
Alba, in the Abruzzi, a seat of a small coinage in the i6th c.
Alba Julia, a Transylvanian mint under the independent waiwodes.
A.I.
Alba Regia, or Agria, an early Hanoverian mint.
Albi or Alby, Dept. of Tarn, 42 m. N.E. of Toulouse, a mint, of which
the profits appear to have been shared from an early period between
the Bishop and the Count of T. In 1037 the latter is found bestowing
his quota on his bride as a dowry. In 1278 the mint-master had liberty
from the Crown to strike petits tournois and oboles tournois in consideration
of paying 30 livres tournois to the King and the same to the See for
each striking. Albieci. The money bearing Albicnsis and N. Bonafos
was struck in and after 1248 at the Chateau Neuf de Bonafos, the residence
of Sicard d'Alaman, Minister of the then Count. The Count, the Bishop,
and Sicard divided the profits.
Alessandria, Piedmont, the seat of a republican coinage, I2th-i4th
c. There is a copper sesino with the head of St. Peter, and on rev.
Alexandria. In 1746 a piece of 10 soldi in bronze or copper was struck
during the blockade by the Marechal de Maillebois.
Alkmaar, N. Holland, the place of origin of tin and lead money,
struck during the siege by the Spaniards in 1573.
Almeloo, Overijssel, a mint of the seigneur, Evert van Hekeren, i5th c.