Definition

• "Long cloak." A nickname given to the double Flabbe, or piece of eight Stuivers issued in Groningen from about 1589 to the middle of the seventeenth century. The allusion is to the figure of St. Martin, who is habited in a long cloak.

Quelle

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

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