Definition

• An abbreviation, for the sake of convenience, of Ortsthaler, and used to designate the one fourth Speciesthaler common to many of the German States in the seventeenth century and later. The curtailed form must have been officially recognized, as in the Swedish series, under Christina, the Ryksort or Riksort occurs, struck for Stettin, of the value of one quarter Rixdaler, and in Brandenburg, Gottingen, Brunswick-Luneburg, etc., there is the Reichsort, with divisions of halves and quarters.

  The one quarter Ort is also called Achtzehner, i.e., one eighteenth, as this coin was equal to eighteen Pfennige or the one sixteenth part of the Thaler of twenty-four Groschen, or two hundred and eighty-eight Pfennige. See Oord and Oertchen.

Source

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

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