Definition

• A gold coin of Flanders and the Low Countries, issued in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It resembles the Anglo-Gallic Chaise (q.v.) and the name is probably derived from " Klinken, " i.e., to ring.

  There are divisions of one half and one third.

Source

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

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