Korten Público Deposited
A name given to an inferior class of billon and copper coins current in Brabant and Flanders in the sixteenth cen- tury. Their value varied from two to three Mytes. The Ordonnantie of 1520 (?10) refers to " Korten en andere swarte penningen." These coins had on the ob- verse the letter K crowned, for Karolus, or Charles V. See v.d. Chijs (pp. 261, 263, 264).
The French equivalent is Courte Noire.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)