Definition

• A popular name to distinguish coins of thick fabric, and usually applied to the silver issues of Switzerland of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. These pieces were patterned after the Italian Testones but did not have the light weight. The Dicken of Berne, dated 1492 (Frey, No. 369), is a good example.

Quelle

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

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