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

Catalogue of European Mints 71
Alost, a itiint of the Count of Flanders, I3th-i4th c. Under Margaret
of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders, 1244-80, and John
I. of
Namur, Count, 1302, \he groat and the tornese were struck here.
Alpen, Cleves, a seigniorial mint of the I4th c., with a crest on obv.
entwined with G.E.R.D. [Count Gerard], and on rev. Alp.
Altenberg, Saxony, an urban mint in the I3th c.,
and one of the
Dukes of Saxe-Altenberg, extinct in 1762. It subsequently struck money
for the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg, to whom this portion of the dominion
passed.
Altenkirchen, Rhenish Prussia, a mint of the Count of Sayn, I7th c.
Only small denominations.
Altona, a mint of the Counts of Holstein, 1620.
Amalfi, the seat of a temporary coinage in the loth and nth c., both
of gold and copper. The former, which belongs to the latter half of the
nth c., consisted of tart, somewhat akin to those of Sicily, but apparently
copied from a distinct Mohammedan prototype. There are copper
follari of Mastalo I.,
Duke and Consul, 914-46, and of Mansone III.
(1042), who bore the same titles. Some of the coinage is anonymous,
and reads merely Consvl Et Dvx, but on a piece of Richard II.
(1121-35) we find Ric. Con. Et Dvx 11.
Amatrice, Naples, in the Abruzzi, a mint of Ferdinand I. of Arragon,
King of Naples, 1458-94.
Amiens, an episcopal, seigniorial, and urban or municipal mint from
the gth c., when we meet with Carlovingian types. Those with part or
a corruption of the word are ascribed to the bishops and the town, which
perhaps continued the clerical motto in a degraded form on its oboles
and deniers. The former are mentioned by the Bishop of Laon in 1 1 1 1.
In the 1
3th c. this place adopted the Flemish maille with Civium and (in
a triangle) Amb. on obv. and on rev. Moneta. The pieces reading
Isiamunai or Isianumai or Isiamuntai (? the name of the moneyer) are
also referred hither. After the Treaty of Arras, 1435, Amiens became a
mint of the Dukes of Burgundy, who struck there money of the regal
type, differenced by the Burgundian briquet. This was one of the places,
with Ghent, Ypres, Arras, Noyon, and Roye, where the moneyer Simon
worked for Philippe d'Alsace.
Amoeneberg, Hesse, a mint of the Archbishop of Mayence. Amenebo,
On some of the coins of this place occur two wheels as a symbol or
as armorial bearings. Comp. Mayence.
Ampurias, Cataluna, the probable place of coinage of the ancient
Counts of A., of whom there was a long line from the gth to the I4th c.
The mint may have been in the Castellon. Hugo Comes and Impuriarum,
Comes Empvr., etc. Low values only.
Amsterdam, doubtless the place of mintage of the siege-money of
1578 and 1672-73, as well as of the colonial series of 1601, both fully
noticed elsewhere. See Ducaton, Real, and Stumer in Cat. of Denom.
Here also were probably struck the well-executed 'and interesting pieces
bearing the name of Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, 1806-1 1, who made
this his capital. His palace
still survives. There is a local tradition
that a certain number of proof impressions of the florin of 1807 were distributed
in advance among the ladies of the Court.
Ancona, in the Papal States, a seat of republican coinage from the
1
3th to the 1 6th, and of papal from the i6th to the i8th c. Under the
republic there was a tolerably plentiful coinage, shewing a state of prosperity.
The zecchino and double zecchino in gold the
; grosso, grossetto,