Book Title: Ordonnances et edicts royaux de France depuis le Roy S. Loys IX. en l'an 1226, iusques au Roy Charles neusieme à present regnant 1565. : Le tout assemblé en tieres, & rubriques à la façon des pandectes du droit Romain, auec annotations necessaires pour l'intelligence des lieux les plus difficiles / par Pierre Rebuffi, docteur en droict, & aduocat en Parlement ; on y a depuis adiosté plusieurs arrests donnez es Cours souueraines, fondez sur la teneur des ordannances : auec deux tables, l'une des rubriques, l'autre des principales matieres qui y sont contenues

Author: Rebuffi, Pierre, 1487-1557, ed

Image Title: Coins of the Rhine

Description: This page contains various European coins of the sixteenth-century, most of which were minted around the Rhine River. The first coin, an obol of Guelders, features a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519-1556) on one side; the other side contains the arms of Guelders, surrounded by the arms of nearby cities. The next two coins in the left column, minted in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, feature a portrait of Stephen, the first Christian martyr. Charles V's name emblazons the fourth coin, an obol of Deventer, another Dutch city. The next coin features a nimbate John the Baptist holding a lamb, and an inscription dedicated to Count Enno II of East Frisia (r. 1528-1540). Liège is the source of the column's next-to-last coin, which bears the portrait and arms of prince-bishop Cornelis van Bergen (r. 1538-1544). The column's final coin contains the arms of Deventer, Kampen, and Zwolle.

The top right coin is similar to Count Enno's coin, but its inscription names Count Edzard I (r. 1491-1528) and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III (r. 1452-1493). Martin of Tours appears next, on a coin from his patron city Utrecht; the city's arms, a cross, appears on the front, while the reverse contains the arms of Burgundy and Flanders. A portrait of Lambert, bishop of Maastricht (d. c. 700), appears on a coin of Liège, his patron city; the opposite side is etched with the name and arms of Jean de Hornes, prince-bishop of Liège (r. 1483-1505). The next two coins are florins of Metz, which include portraits of the martyr Stephen; their reverses both have shields in the center: the former shield seems to contain the arms of the bishopric of Metz, while the latter contains those of the city of Metz. The next-to-last coin portrays Cardinal Robert de Lenoncourt (d. 1561), opposite his personal arms. Finally, a Swiss teston from the town of Saint Gallen contains an inscription dedicated to Othmar, eighth-century abbot of Saint-Gall.

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