Definition

• The name given to small thin silver coins which were originally struck about the beginning of the fourteenth century at Hall in Wurttemberg. They are without any inscription and have on one side a cross and on the other a hand, from which the name is derived. They are mentioned in an ordinance of the Emperor Wenceslaus of the year 1385, in which it stated that the cities of Augsburg, Nuremburg, Ulm, and Hall, are the only localities in which these coins are to be struck.

Source

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

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