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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1661591, member: 39&quot;]Oh dear ... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Guess this requires an expert, which I am not when it comes to historic currencies and their possible exchange rates. I know that the multitude of currency systems in the German countries back then made trade - particularly cross border trade - quite complicated, and that it took several conventions (Munich 1837, Dresden 1838, Vienna 1857) to alleviate the problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is from a book published in the late 18th century: <a href="http://www.zeno.org/nid/20000273252" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.zeno.org/nid/20000273252" rel="nofollow">http://www.zeno.org/nid/20000273252</a> (values refer to the 1, or full, Kopfstück). According to the Brockhaus link on that page, from about 100 years ago, the term Kopfstück was used for the 20 Kreuzer piece in Austria and Southern Germany. But being a collector of modern stuff whose first language happens to be German <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I cannot really help with that ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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