Coin tasting
Münzprobation is an official examination minted coins of said prescribed ground (or the prescribed weight) and the prescribed fineness .
Coin trials were carried out in the German-speaking area both across the empire and at the level of the imperial districts and at the sovereign level.
In the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , coin tasting days were held in order to provide an overview of the state of coinage as part of a coin tasting. Representatives of the imperial estates gathered here to monitor compliance with the imperial coinage order . The aim was to remedy any coin deficiencies in the early modern period .
The Reichstag in Frankfurt on October 1, 1591 divided the imperial circles into three classes of coins :
- First class: Kur-Rheinischer Kreis , Oberrheinischer Kreis , Westfälischer Kreis
- Second class: Lower Saxony District , Upper Saxony District , and occasionally the Westphalian District
- Third class: Franconian District , Bavarian District , Swabian District
In these "corresponding" imperial circles, general coin trials were to be held once or twice a year.
The coin trials also took place in the 18th century during other meetings of the imperial circles. The final result of a coin trial day is called a coin trial farewell or coin trial recess .
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Definition in the German legal dictionary, keyword "Münzprobation" , accessed on August 15, 2013
- ^ [Repertorium real pragmaticum iuris publici et feudalis imperii Romano-Germanici, or des Heil. Rom. Reichs Staats- und Feudal Law] Repertorivm Reale Pragmaticvm Ivris Pvblici Et Fevdalis Imperii Romano-Germanici, Or des Heil. Rom. Reich constitutional and feudal law: at the same time ... a ... Bibliotheca Iuris Publici Et Feudalis / with a preface by Christian Gottlieb Buders. - Jena: Cuno, 1751. - [8] Bl., 1276 S.: Ill .; s. 783. Available online, accessed August 15, 2013
- ↑ 1773 Moser, KreisVerf. 425