Carrot (coin)
Möhrchen is a collective name for small coins that circulated in the Rhineland from the 15th to the 17th century .
Dark or black coins with a high proportion of copper and thus low value often had designations that came from their color and metaphorization . From the 13th century in France surrounding Turnos -Pfennig the Latin name mockery went Mauri (from maurus " Mohr ") on a one-sided embossed Heller coin over that since the first half of the 15th century in Archdiocese and the city of Cologne has been issued, the Mauriculus seu niger thuronensis , "carrot or black turnose". The carrot, often also Mörchen, kept its Low German and Dutch names ( morgin, mōrken, mörche, mürge, mure, more ) until the middle of the 17th century.
The name was also transferred to similar small coins from other Rhenish minters, such as the Archbishops of Trier . The dialect expression Möschen han "have money" is documented for Cologne until the 20th century.
Individual evidence
- ^ Henry Otto Schwabe: Germanic coin names. In: Modern Philology. Volume 13, 1915/1916, p. 603, online . - Wolfgang Hess: The Rhenish coinage in the 14th century and the emergence of the Kurheinische Münzverein. In: Hans Patze: The German territorial state in the 14th century. 2nd edition, Volume 1, 1986, p. 271. - Friedrich von Schrötter: Dictionary of coinage. 2nd edition, Berlin 1970, p. 273, Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old dimensions, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 190 . sv Möhrchen, p. 125 sv Hohlringheller. - Karl Christian Schiller, August Lübben: Middle Low German Dictionary. Volume 3, Bremen 1877, p. 120 sv morken, online with US proxy
- ^ Konrad Schneider: Münzschatz from Pfalzel from the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. Reflections on the currency in the Upper Moselle region around 1400. In: Trier magazine for the history and art of the Trier region and its neighboring areas . Volume 62, 1999, p. 235
- ^ Fritz Hönig: Dictionary of the Cologne dialect. Cologne 1952, p. 122 online with US proxy