Korn Público Deposited
A term used by German numis- matic writers to indicate the fineness of an alloy in coinage. It is referred to in this sense in a mint ordinance of 140!), con- tracted between Baden, Speyer, and the Palatinate. The expression probably arose from the practice of computing two hun- dred and eighty-eight barleycorns to the Mark, when the latter was a weight and money of account. See Schrot.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)