Dreiling

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Dreiling (disambiguation) .

Dreiling, Duchy of Mecklenburg , Albrecht VII. 1503

Cu ½ Dreiling Scheidemünze , Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , Georg II. 1739 ( Welter 1812)

Dreiling (also Dreyling, Dreling or Driling, Latin ternarius , Danish trepenning ) was the name of a dividing coin with a value of three pfennigs.

Coins of the three-ring type were first minted in Lübeck after 1374 and a little later in Hamburg . After the recess of 1392 it was a coin in the Wendish Mint Association . The participating cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, Lüneburg , Rostock and Wismar agreed on a uniform appearance of the triplet. They showed the coat of arms of the respective city on both sides. The weight and content of silver were also uniformly determined. Some cities in Mecklenburg , Pomerania and Denmark minted triplets without being a member of the Wendish Mint Association.

After the end of the Wendish Münzverein in the middle of the 16th century, triplets were minted in northern Germany up to the middle of the 19th century, made of copper since the end of the 18th century. Schleswig-Holstein minted the last triplet from copper in 1850/51 and Hamburg from a billon alloy in 1855 .

Occasionally the copper 1½ pfennig coins of the 18th century were also referred to as Dreilinge, as they were worth 3 hellers (Dreyheller).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Friedrich Frhr. v. Schrötter : dictionary of coinage . Second, unchanged edition. Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1970, p. 162 .