Vierdung

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A Vierdung (also Firdung , Vierting or Ferto ) was a quarter of a unit, in the later Middle Ages especially 1/4 mark silver (marca argenti), for example four lots of the coin mark valid at the time in pfennigs (about 150 pieces).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 20, 1905, p. 154 ( online at zeno.org )