Definition

• A nickname given to small thick silver coins, issued in West- phalia and vicinity during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. They are of about fifteen millimetres in diameter, whereas the dies impressed on them are of twenty-two millimetres, and in conse- quence only fragmentary portions of the inscriptions are visible.

  The name is obtained from Florenz von Wewelinghofen, Bishop of Munster (1364- 1379), who resorted to this practice.

Source

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

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