Definition

• The general term employed to express a value not represented by an actual coin, but which is computed on the basis of a number of struck pieces, the money of account representing a unit value, in some instances very minute or insignificant, and in others very large.

  Examples are the Talent of the Ancients, the Conto of the Portuguese, the Beutel of the Muhammadans, the Indian Lac of Rupees, and the Mill in the coinage of the United States.

  The German numismatic writers use the term Rechnungsmunzen, and the French say Monnaies de Compte.

Quelle

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

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