Thick coin
The term thick coin denotes coins that correspond in weight, alloy and value to a coin minted at the same time, but have a smaller diameter and thus a greater thickness.
The thick coins were minted in many cases with the punches of smaller coins, such as the thickness dollars with half taler or - much more rarely - with the fourth thaler. In this practice , the value number often stopped, as was the case with some Reichsguldinern , who had a value number of 30 instead of 60 ( kreuzers ). This phenomenon did not occur in the case of the thick thaler stamped with a half thaler, as the half thaler had no value indication.
The thick coins were often used as gifts.
In contrast to the thick thalers, thalers whose diameter is larger than the normal thaler for the same coin weight are called broad thaler .
literature
- Thick coins. In: Friedrich von Schrötter (Hrsg.): Dictionary of coinage. W. de Gruyter & Co., Berlin et al. 1930, pp. 138f. (2nd unchanged edition, ibid. 1970).
- Tyll Kroha : Thick thaler. In: Tyll Kroha: Lexicon of Numismatics. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1977, ISBN 3-570-01588-2 , p. 142.