Definizione

• A silver coin of Brunswick-Luneburg, the ordinary type bearing on the obverse a wild man holding a tree, but the name is also given to the Loserthaler (q.v.), on which two wild men are supporting the armorial shield. Simi- lar designs are found on the Gulden and Pfennige.

  The armorial shield of the House of Schwarzburg is supported by a wild man and a wild woman, to be found on the coins of Gunther XL (1537-1552), dated 1543, etc.

Fonte

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

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