Scot (bill coin)

Scot (also Skot ) is the name derived from a silver weight of a bill coin in use from the 12th to the 16th century in Poland , Prussia and Silesia , which denoted the twenty-fourth part of a mark .

The value relations applied

• 1 scot = 30 pfennigs
• 6 Scot = 1 Ferding
• 24 Scot = 1 mark

The Scot is not to be confused with the Scoter (also Schoter ), a silver coin with a face value of 15 Pfennig minted by the Teutonic Order in Prussia from around 1490 .

literature

• Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , Skot, Scot, Schoter, p. 286 .