Definizione

• A diminutive Groschen common to many parts of Northern Germany during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. There is a dated one of 1429 for Gottingen. See Frey (No. 26).

  Adam Berg, in his New Munzbuch, 1597, mentions them as struck in Eimbeck, Gottingen, Hameln, Northeim, and Hanover ; and he adds that they are small silver coins of the value of three Pfennige or eighty-four to the Gulden.

  The name of the coin is probably derived from Groschen, low-German "Grote," diminutive "Grotling" and by the transposition of the letter r we obtain " Gortling " and finally "Kortling," i.e., a fractional "Groschen."

Fonte

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

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