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: Thalers and Testons of Europe

Scripture Reference:

• Psalms 26 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This page contains images of thalers (called jocondales in the text) which circulated in Europe during the sixteenth century. The top left coin, a silver thaler, depicts Count Willem IV van den Berg (d. 1586), a stadtholder of the southern Netherlands, armed and on horseback. Below, a half-thaler features the name, image, and crest of King Eric XIV of Sweden (r. 1560-1568). A series of Swiss testons follows: the first features a double eagle above the symbol of Bern, a bear; the next two feature the arms of Lucerne and portraits of the martyred bishop Léger (d. 679; also called Leodegar); and the column's final coin contains the arms of Solothurn, along with a portrait of its patron saint, the late-third-century martyr Ursus of Solothurn.

The right column begins with a German thaler, of Mansfeld, which contains the arms of the Counts of Mansfeld, along with the names of a few counts. The coin below features three conjoined shields bearing the arms of Dutch cities Zwolle, Deventer, and Kampen; the reverse features an angel fighting a demon with a sword and with a shield of Zwolle. Prince-elector of the Palatine Frederick II (r. 1544-1556) appears on the next coin, holding a sword and globus cruciger; the reverse contains the three arms which constitute the full arms of the County Palatine of the Rhine. The final group of three thalers has no apparent unifying feature. The first is another coin of Solothurn featuring Ursus, who now appears standing. The next coin, which bears the name and arms of Count Ernst V of Hohnstein (r. 1508-1552), features the apostle Andrew carrying a saltire cross. Finally, the bottom right column features a crowned double eagle, an emblem of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519-1556); the other side features the arms of the German town Ulmen.

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