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A silver coin, a variety of the Schelling (q.v.), issued in 1582 in the Provinces of Gueldres, Utreckt, and Friesland, and copied by Deventer and Zeeland. Its value appears to have varied from six to eight Stuivers.
The obverse bears the figure of a galloping horseman and usually the date; on the reverse is the armorial shield of the province for which it is issued.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)