Schilling Schleswig-Holstein Courant
Schilling Schleswig-Holsteinisch Courant was the name of the Schilling coins that were introduced in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the Danish state on February 29, 1788 .
value
60 schillings Schleswig-Holsteinisch Courant resulted in a speciestaler in the 9¼ thaler coin footer , which had been valid for a long time in Hamburg (see Schilling Hamburger Current ) and in Lübeck. The reference unit there, however, was the mark of 16 shillings; accordingly, the denominations of the various currencies differed from one another.
The schilling Schleswig-Holsteinisch Courant was officially divided into 12 pfennigs . However, only triplets (3 pfennigs) and sextuplets (6 pfennigs) were minted. Strangely enough - and unlike Hamburg and Lübeck - there was no 1 schilling coin, but a 2 six of a kind coin. These three small coins were issued as divisional coins . The coins of 2½ Schilling, 5 Schilling, 10 Schilling, 20 Schilling (⅓ Species ), 40 Schilling (⅔ Species) and 60 Schilling (1 Species) were full- value Kurant coins minted from different silver alloys .
All denominations were minted from 1787. The first to stop the minting of the 10 shilling coin in 1796; the popular 2½ Schilling coin was minted until 1812.
In the course of the Danish state bankruptcy in 1813, the currency of the duchies - as well as the Danish core state - was changed to Reichsbanktaler ( Rigsbankdaler ) and Reichsbankschillinge (Rigsbankskilling) . Since many current payment obligations were in Schilling Schleswig-Holsteinsch Courant and in Hamburg and Lübeck further calculations were made according to Courant-Schillingen, the population of the duchies largely stuck to the old currency calculation. It was therefore decreed on December 18, 1841 that some of the Rigsbank coins should also show the value in Schilling Schleswig-Holsteinisch Courant.
source
- Kurt Jaeger, Jens-Uwe Rixen: Northwest Germany - East Friesland, Oldenburg, Jever, Kniphausen, Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Lauenburg. Volume 6 of the series The coinage of the German states before the introduction of the Reich currency . Coins and medals A. G., Basel 1971, p. 170ff.