Definition

• A silver coin which appeared early in the sixteenth century in Scandinavia, Livonia, Holstein, Hamburg, Lubeek, Mecklenburg, etc., and which represented approximately a half Thaler.

  In Sweden it was struck as early as 1512 and retained until the beginning of the eighteenth century. In Denmark its value was sixteen Skilling and it was in use to the reign of Frederick VI (1808).

  A Mark was issued in Livonia in 1573 for payment of the garrison of Pernau.

Source

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

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