Crazia (coin)
The Crazia , more rarely Cracia, was the name of a silver coin and also an Italian measure of length in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (see Crazia ).
The small coin was commissioned by the dukes Cosimo I to Franz III. embossed. Many subsequent coins took place in the northern Italian small states. The value at that time was 5 pfennigs .
On the back the holy Baptist was shown standing. The origin of the denomination is presumed from the name of the German cruiser .
The coin was divided like this:
- 1 crazia = 5 quartrini = 20 denari
- 8 Crazie = 1 Paolo
- 12 crazie = 1 lira
- 64 Crazie = 1 Testone / Scudo
literature
- Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 238
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich von Schrötter, N. Bauer, K. Regling, A. Suhle, R. Vasmer, J. Wilcke: Dictionary of Coin Studies. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1970, p. 115, ISBN 3-110-012-278
- ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 52