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<p>[QUOTE="DEA, post: 3641534, member: 90140"]As for 'scheidemüzen' meaning "separate coins." And an example of localized or "land" coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a soldier stationed in Germany, one of my favorite NCOs enjoyed hailing another soldier as as "heimscheide" or "heimscheibe" - that is, home slice. Anecdote aside, that has generally been my understanding of "scheidemüzen" - 'small change' or 'a slice of currency' or 'a piece of currency.' More simply explained, small currency. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the currency issued by a sovereign entity, under the descriptor of "Landesmünzen," my understanding (or feeling, I guess since I have nothing to support it) is that a German government issued a coin with the sole intention of the coin being legal tender for the local economy. My example (this six kreuzer issued by Maximillian I, Joseph, in Baiern (or Bayern or Bavaria)) contains 0.0289 ounces of silver. King Max intended this coin to be worth six kreuzer in the Bavarian economy, no matter what three-hundredths of an ounce of silver was actually worth at the time. And I'd have to think that local consumers and tradesmen (tradespeople? - or was there no PC at the time?) did just that. That is not a denial that if three-hundredths of an ounce of silver was 'worth' more somewhere else, the coin was not melted down or shipped off to where one could get more stuff for the perceived 'value' of the silver. I think that is why there is a distinction of trade coinage, which a sovereign entity uses for international trade. Yes? </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]977603[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DEA, post: 3641534, member: 90140"]As for 'scheidemüzen' meaning "separate coins." And an example of localized or "land" coinage. When I was a soldier stationed in Germany, one of my favorite NCOs enjoyed hailing another soldier as as "heimscheide" or "heimscheibe" - that is, home slice. Anecdote aside, that has generally been my understanding of "scheidemüzen" - 'small change' or 'a slice of currency' or 'a piece of currency.' More simply explained, small currency. As for the currency issued by a sovereign entity, under the descriptor of "Landesmünzen," my understanding (or feeling, I guess since I have nothing to support it) is that a German government issued a coin with the sole intention of the coin being legal tender for the local economy. My example (this six kreuzer issued by Maximillian I, Joseph, in Baiern (or Bayern or Bavaria)) contains 0.0289 ounces of silver. King Max intended this coin to be worth six kreuzer in the Bavarian economy, no matter what three-hundredths of an ounce of silver was actually worth at the time. And I'd have to think that local consumers and tradesmen (tradespeople? - or was there no PC at the time?) did just that. That is not a denial that if three-hundredths of an ounce of silver was 'worth' more somewhere else, the coin was not melted down or shipped off to where one could get more stuff for the perceived 'value' of the silver. I think that is why there is a distinction of trade coinage, which a sovereign entity uses for international trade. Yes? [ATTACH=full]977603[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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