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: Royal Coins of Europe

Description: This page contains images of royal coins that circulated in Europe during the sixteenth century. The first two coins features the heads of English monarchs Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547)—whose coat of arms appears on the reverse—and Richard II (r. 1377-1399). Two English coins known as angels appear next; as the text notes, these were forged under the Abbess of Thorn, Margaret van Broderode. The angels' inscriptions differ; Queen Mary I (r. 1553-1558) receives honor on the first. Otherwise, the coins are much the same. After the angels come two Portuguese coins featuring the cross of the Order of Christ and the king's coat of arms: the first bears the name of King Manuel I (r. 1495-1521); the second, that of his successor John III (r. 1521-1557).

The right column begins with a coin featuring the head of King Ferdinand II of Aragon (r. 1479-1516), along with the arms of Aragon. According to the text, the next two coins are counterfeits of Portuguese coins, forged in Germany. They closely resemble two series of coins minted under King John III: one with a small cross and one with a long cross. A portrait of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, marks the next coin, of Nijmegen, whose arms and insignia appear on the reverse. Finally the page concludes with five coins minted under Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I (r. 1558-1564). All the coins feature Mary holding the child Jesus, and the first three feature Ferdinand standing with sword and scepter in hand. The other two coins contain portraits of the apostle Peter, who holds a crossed key, and of the martyr George, who appears in armor holding his signature red-cross flag.

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