Definition

• A name employed in Switzer- land to designate a certain class of medals which were distributed as awards for pro- ficiency to scholars in colleges, schools, etc. The custom appears to have originated at Basle in the latter part of the sixteenth century. They are also known as Schul- pfennige.

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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