Mocking coin
Mocking coins are coins which, in contrast to the mocking medals, were intended for normal money circulation and which, in their motif or inscription, mock events, institutions or people in a humorous or satirical way.
history
Mocking coins were already to be found in the Roman Empire . Religious and political disputes were also reflected on coins later, for example in the wake of the Reformation .
A well-known German example is the Pfaffenfeindtaler , sometimes referred to as the Gottesfreundtaler. Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , leader of a Protestant mercenary army in 1622, had this minted from the captured Paderborn cathedral treasure during the Thirty Years' War in order to express his contempt for the opposing Catholic League and the Catholics in general. His father, Duke Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, had five Spotttalers minted, including the Rebel Taler, in the 1590s .
The Numismatics in Holland is particularly rich in derision coins.
Anti-Semitic mocking coins also became known, for example after the execution of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer , as well as the French Emperor Napoleon III. The subject of some mockery was made.
The mocking coins also include privately worked coins. At the beginning of the 20th century, Prussian 3 and 5 mark pieces with a cylinder soldered on were put into circulation to express that with the outbreak of the November Revolution in 1918 the German Emperor Wilhelm II literally had to resign. The Saxon King Friedrich August III. was mocked with a cylinder coin.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Theodor Schulz: From the principate to the dominance: the essence of the Roman Empire of the third century studies of the history and culture of antiquity. F. Schöningh, Paderborn 1919. (Reprint: Johnson Reprint Corp., New York / London 1967) ( Studies on the history and culture of antiquity. Vol. 9, H. 4/5)
- ^ Hugo Schnell (Ed.): Martin Luther and the Reformation on coins and medals. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7814-0221-5 .
- ^ A b Karl Christoph Schmieder: Concise dictionary of all coin studies: written for coin lovers and business people. Halle Orphanage, Halle 1811.
- ↑ Wolfgang-Georg Schulze: Mocking coins and medals on Napoleon III, 1848-1872. Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1980, ISBN 3-88339-060-7 . (Coin collection Bochum: small notebooks of the coin collection at the Ruhr University Bochum; No. 6)
- ↑ Kaiser Wilhelm II with cylinder
- ↑ Mocking coin with cylinder