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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3496660, member: 96898&quot;]Thanks for the compliment, [USER=42634]@chrsmat71[/USER], and nice Carinthian pfennig!</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning the <i>Vierschlag</i>, I read about a somewhat different reason for it. Many medieval flans were produced by cutting them from a thin metal sheet. Cutting out round flans created a lot of &#039;waste,&#039; which had to be melted down and rolled into sheets once more. To make the process a bit easier, medieval mint workers cut out square flans and hammered them into a round shape with four strokes. Sometimes, the edges were afterwards trimmed a little to make the coin perfectly round and also to control weight (see my first heller), in most cases, though, the coin was left as square-ish as it was (see my second heller).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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