Timpf

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Johann II. Casimir , Timpf from 1663 (⅓ thaler, called guldentympfe, at 30 groschen) Mmz. A - T

The Tympf (seldom Timpf , Polish Tymf ) was a low- grade silver coin in Poland-Lithuania , but also in Brandenburg-Prussia and Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries.

history

Tympf of King John II Casimir of Poland

The coin was struck for the first time in 1663 in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) in Polish Prussia by the mint master Andreas Tympf and then named after him. The nominal value was initially 30 groschen , but it soon fell to 18 groschen due to the low silver content.

In Brandenburg-Prussia, too, tymps were minted from around 1685.

After the Polish royal crown was taken over by the Saxon electors in 1688, many tympfe were struck in the Leipzig mint as eighteen groschen pieces . From 1756 onwards by the Prussian King Friedrich II, who had conquered the city in the Seven Years War. In Prussia, the minting was stopped in 1765.

The Russian tsars minted Tympfe in the Polish-Lithuanian territories they occupied from 1707 to 1709 during the Northern War and from 1759 to 1761 in the Seven Years' War.

There were other mints in Königsberg and Stettin.

After the partitions of Poland, the coin was soon replaced by other currencies. Altogether about six million of these coins were issued, which achieved a treasure trove of over two million guilders.

In Poland the tympf was a symbol of the poor state of the country because of its low salary, especially in the years before the partition of Poland. There is the saying Dobry żart tymfa wart ( a good joke is worth a tympf ).

literature

  • Friedrich von Schrötter (Ed.) With N. Bauer, K. Regling, A. Suhle, R. Vasmer , J. Wilcke: Dictionary of coinage . De Gruyter, Berlin 1970 (reprint of the original edition from 1930). P. 247 and more.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wielka historia Polski, praca zbiorowa, t. XIII: R-Ż, Kraków 2001
  2. ↑ Heinz Fengler, Gerd Gierow, Willy Unger: transpress lexicon Numismatics , Berlin 1976
  3. ↑ Helmut Kahnt: The big Münzlexicon from A to Z . Battenberg Verlag Regenstauf 2005. P. 12 ISBN 3-89441-550-9 ( Eighteen Gröscher )
  4. ^ Three tymps in Brandenburg-Prussia numisbids
  5. ↑ Friedrich von Schrötter (ed.) With N. Bauer, K. Regling, A. Suhle, R. Vasmer , J. Wilcke: Dictionary der Münzkunde , de Gruyter, Berlin 1970 (reprint of the original edition from 1930), p. 247