Hobby Horse Public Deposited
Also known as Steckenreiter. The name given to both a gold and silver squire coin which the Imperial Ambassador in Nuremburg ordered to be struck in the year 1650, on the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia. He was tendered an ovation by the youths of the city, who appeared in front of his residence riding on hobby-horses. This incident is depicted on one side of the coin and the reverse bears the inscription VIVAT FERDINANDVS II. ROM. IMP.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)