Krumsteert Pubblico Deposited
also written Cromstaert and Krumsteert, i.e., " crooked tail." A nickname given to a silver coin of Brabant of the original value of two Groten, issued early in the fifteenth century. The ob- verse shows a lion rampant with a curved tail.
The type was copied in the Low Coun- tries and also in the city of Emden when the latter was under the domination of Hamburg, from 1433 to 1439.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)