Definition

• A name given to such coins as were struck jointly by two or more rulers ostensibly from pure motives of friendship, but frequently a political purpose of unity is also to be served.

  The following are the principal ones: for Baden, struck by the Margraves Bernhard and Ernst in 1533; for Saxony, struck by the Dukes Kasimir of Gotha and Johann Ernst of Eisenach in 1598; for Brunswick, struck by Julius Ernst and August in 1599 and 1617; and for Stolberg, struck by Christian Friedrich and Jost Christian in 1704.

  All of these have the busts facing or the names of the contracting rulers and frequently a device of clasped hands, etc.

Source

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

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