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: German Thalers and Savoyard Coins

Description: This page is divided into a left column with images of German-minted thalers (called jocondales in the text) and a right column with Savoy-minted coins which circulated during the sixteenth century. The thaler in the top left contains a portrait of William the Rich, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (r. 1539-1592); the opposite side contains the duchy's composite coat of arms. Below this coin appears a thaler minted in the Bavarian town of Kempten, which features Kempten's double-eagle shield among others and, on the other side, a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519-1556). The next coin, from the Swiss city of Schauffhausen, contains the city's heraldic symbol, a goat emerging from a tower. The Schauffhausen coin includes an eagle; the coin below that, a thaler from Frankfurt, also features an eagle, but this one wears a crown and functions as the city's heraldic symbol. The next-to-last thaler in the left column represents Holy Roman Emperor Charles V with a crowned double eagle; the other side features the arms of the County of Oettingen, in Bavaria. The column ends with a half-thaler minted in the County of Stolberg, whose arms appear in a quartered shield.

The right column features coins of Savoy and includes text which dictates the worth of each coin, depending on the mass of the coin. The first is a coin worth twenty sols (equal to one Tours livre), which features a portrait of Emmanuel Philibert (r. 1553-1580), Prince of Piedmont and Duke of Savoy. The next two coins, worth four sols and one sol, respectively, have much the same design, and they both include the personal arms of Emmanuel Philibert. Finally, the page's coin images end with a half-sol piece bearing the initials of Emmanuel Philibert (according to his Italian surname, Filiberto).

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