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The popular name for a copper coinage of Erfurt, the principal city of Thuringia. The name means dissent ion or quarrel.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century the local mintmaster did not always comply with the ordinances governing the weight and purity of the coinage, which led to frequent complaints from neighboring principalities where these pieces were circulated.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)