Discount (numismatics)

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Archdiocese of Mainz, Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, ½ ducat 1795, gold strike from the stamps for the Billon cruiser
Hessen-Kassel, Wilhelm V., gold strike from the Weidenbaum double-thaler stamps from 1634 to 10  ducats

A tee is particularly a embossment in a metal for which the concerned Coining is not intended, for example, embossing with a cruiser temple in gold rather than in Billon .

Explanation

Discounts are stamps that have been produced using original stamps in a currency metal that does not match the standard designs. Often the first coins of a newly introduced coinage were minted from silver in gold, or from copper in gold or silver. The specimens made of precious metal, also known as initial discounts, were given to the mint or prince. They were also struck as speculative coins by the mint master .

The multiple ducats (gold markings) embossed with thalers were fit for circulation as Kurant coins. But they were usually donative . These are coins or medals that were used as gifts. Lower class people received gift coins that were stamped as silver from ducat stamps.

Trial stamps or stamps referred to only as samples or trial stamps are trial stamps . The test minting is used to test a coin design, a coin stamp or an embossing machine. Trials are often made of a different metal and weight than the final coins and were also made of base metal . There come u. a. Trial cuts with larger or cliff-shaped planets in front as well as one-sided samples of a front or back stamp.

Occasionally, replicas of rare coins and medals with original stamps are referred to as a later strike. See for example: Butterfly thaler / re-coinage and Schmalkaldischer Bundestaler / Schautaler with Duke Moritz .

See also

literature

  • Heinz Fengler, Gerd Gierow, Willy Unger: transpress Lexikon Numismatics , Berlin 1976
  • Friedrich von Schrötter , N. Bauer, K. Regling, A. Suhle, R. Vasmer , J. Wilcke: Dictionary of Coin Studies , Berlin 1970 (reprint of the original edition from 1930)
  • Paul Arnold, Harald Küthmann, Dirk Steinhilber: Large German coin catalog from 1800 to today . Augsburg 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Arnold, ...: Large German coin catalog from 1800 to today , numismatic terms: discount.
  2. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition, 1885–1890.
  3. ↑ acsearch: Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Ludwig Rudolph, mark off the stamp of the copper penny from 1734 in gold.
  4. ↑ Friedrich von Schrötter, ...: Dictionary of Coin Studies , p. 4.
  5. ↑ Friedrich von Schrötter,…: Dictionary of Coin Studies , p. 221.
  6. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old dimensions, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1986, licensed edition Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 383 ( Donative ).
  7. ↑ Heinz Fengler, ...: transpress Lexicon Numismatics , p. 114.
  8. ↑ Paul Arnold, ...: Large German coin catalog from 1800 to today , numismatic terms: sample.
  9. ↑ acsearch: German Democratic Republic, 20 Marks (1968), Karl Marx, front section in aluminum.
  10. ↑ acsearch: Federal Republic of Germany, cliff-shaped cuts on the front and back of the 2 Deutsche Mark 1951 F.