Fat man

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As a fat little man in the Rhineland of the 17th century were eight Heller coins designated as 1583 to 1737 in the Lower Rhine were minted. The first coin without denomination was minted in Kleve, Kurköln and Aachen from 1583 to around 1590. The Werden Abbey minted it from 1613/14 in the workshop of the mint master Heinrich Wintgens in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Another quite extensive coinage followed in 1647/48. The last rather sporadic fat men were minted in Kurköln in 1726. Johann Friedrich Hähn determined the exchange value for Westphalia in 1766 with half a stüver .

Surname

The name “Fettmännchen” was coined to distinguish the eight-bell coins from the “skinny men” from Groningen , the four-bell coins. Other explanations, such as the greasy hands of the traders, a stout saint on the coin or the popular assumption that this coin does not make you “fat” in the sense of “rich”, should be incorrect.

literature

  • Ingrid and Wolfgang Schulze: Essener Fettmännchen in the Pattscheid find , in: Münzfreunde Essen e. V. III (1978) 7-38.
  • Hans Spaeth: Just a fat man. A coin find in the Essen market church , in: Das Münster am Hellweg, bulletin of the Association for the Preservation of Essen Minster 3.10 (1950) 151–153.

Remarks

  1. ↑ acsearch: Fettmännchen, WERDEN UND HELMSTEDT, ABBEIES Heinrich IV. Dücker. 1646–1667, VIII Heller 1647 ("Fettmännchen"; Mzz. Sheet). Value of the Reichstaler. Back: VIII in writing. Knyph.
  2. ↑ Friedrich von Schrötter (Ed.): Dictionary of Coin Studies , Walter de Gruyter, 2nd edition, 1970, p. 193 f.
  3. ^ Yearbook for West German State History 33 (2007), p. 138.
  4. ↑ Johann Friedrich Hähn: Brief explanation of a representation of the earth engraved in copper, whereupon in XX. small charts the essentials from geography, genealogy, chronology, history, heraldic and numismatic for the beginners of these sciences designed for the use of the Real-Schule in Berlin , 5th edition, Berlin 1766, p. 211.
  5. ^ Heinz J. Kramer: Coin money in Essen: Coins, circulation, finds , in: Jan Gerchow (Hrsg.): For face coin. On the monetary history of the Essen monastery and the Abei Werden , pp. 12–21, here: p. 18.