Definition

• A German slang or popular name for a red copper coin, and formerly frequently applied to the Pfennig. The word means a fox, and the allusion is of course to the color.

  Gold Fuchs is used for a Ducat. Thus Langbein, Gedichte (ii. 137), has the lines:

  "Statt der gehofften goldenen Fuchse, Fand man nur Kupfer in der Buchse."

Quelle

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

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