Definition

• This name is given to a variety of Bracteates, generally the twelfth part of the early Groschen, issued in Saxony, etc., in the early part of the fifteenth century. They obtain their name from the shield on which is a lion rampant. An ordinance of 1482 for the mint-master Augustin Horn of Zwickau reads "die Pfennig soltn schlecht mit dem Geprege eins Lawen usw. slahen."e;

  These coins were also called Lauenpfennige, and the type was copied by the city of Brunswick. The latter have the letter B above or at the side of the shield. The Lowenheller of Ludwig III, Elector of the Palatinate (1410-1436) have a crowned lion rampant, and are of somewhat smaller size.

Quelle

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

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