Witten 上市 Deposited
The name given to base silver coins, which originally were issued at Lu- beck about 1380, and were copied in Ham- burg, Schleswig Holstein, Hanover, Meck- lenburg, Pommerania, East Friesland, and other north German provinces. They rap- idly became the current money, and were of the value of half a Schilling. There are divisions of half and quarter Witten.
The name is a corruption of weiss , given to the coins on account of their white, shiny appearance, and corresponding to the Albus.
In the Low Countries a Witten Pennine of Brabant was issued about 1506, of the value of half a Grote. Under Christina of Sweden and her successors, the Witten was struck for Stettin, Stralsund, and Wismar; it was equal to the one one hun- dred and ninety-second of the Riksdaler.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)