Stüber
Stüber (abbreviation: stbr.) Or Stüver is the name for small groschen coins that were minted in northwest Germany (especially in the territories of today's North Rhine-Westphalia and East Frisia ) from around the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 19th century .
The value of the coin was 4 pfennigs or 2 Deut and thus corresponded nominally to a groten or an English groat . These were reproductions of an originally Dutch coin, the Stuiver (until 1815). This in turn was an imitation of the medieval penny . 20 stuivers were worth one guilder , and so in the Netherlands the 5- cent piece is still called a stuiver .
The name “Stuiver” is derived from the Dutch stuiven (spark “stieben”), as early Flemish stuivers “sparkling flints of the chain of the golden fleece ” were depicted.
The name Stüber was also discussed as a part of the Austrian Schilling , which was newly introduced in 1924 , but ultimately the name Groschen was chosen.
literature
- Heinz Fengler, Gerhard Gierow, Willy Unger: Numismatics . Berlin 1988.
- Helmut Kahnt: The big Münzlexikon from A to Z . Regenstauf 2005.
- Hans Spaeth: The coin find from Kirchhellen. A contribution to the systematics of the Emmericher Stüber . Kreß & Hornung, Munich 1941.
