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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 781196, member: 39&quot;]Yes, that is where it was issued. You may know how bad Germans are when it comes to compounds: Sometimes we love to concatenate words. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Drusus already explained it; &quot;Kleingeldersatzmarke&quot; consists of four elements:</p><p><br /></p><p>KLEIN - small</p><p>GELD - money</p><p>ERSATZ - replacement / in lieu of</p><p>MARKE - token</p><p><br /></p><p>The first two together - &quot;Kleingeld&quot; - is &quot;small change&quot;; &quot;ersatz&quot; occurs in English too (but with a more pejorative meaning than in German). Thus &quot;token in lieu of small change&quot;. The &quot;10&quot; most probably means 10 pfennig.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other side you see &quot;Stadt Fulda&quot;, ie. City of Fulda, and the year. Fulda is a city in the German state of Hessen. The knight holds two shields which, combined, are the CoA of the city: The cross refers to Fulda Abbey, the origin of the place so to say. The plant in the other shield is three lilies representing Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, three martyrs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicius,_Faustinus_and_Beatrix" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicius,_Faustinus_and_Beatrix" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicius,_Faustinus_and_Beatrix</a> and, since Bonifatius brought their relics to Fulda, patrons of the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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