Contribution Coins Publique Deposited
The name applied to any series of coins which were issued as necessity money to pay an indemnity levied. They were frequently struck from the private silver of the residents and from metallic ornaments, regalia, chalices, etc., belonging to the churches. See Obsi- dional Coins.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)