Definition

• A base silver coin struck in Metz and current in Lorraine during the fifteenth century and later. It is men- tioned in an ordinance of 1511 as having a value of ten Deniers.

  There arc both municipal and episcopal types, and the usual devices bear a figure of St. Stephen, with the inscription S'. STEP-H. PROTHO'.

  It is sometimes called Tiercelle. See Blanchet, Nouveau manuel de numismatique. 1890. (486).

Source

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

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