Définition

• The name given to a Thaler struck by Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Liineburg in 1599. It bears on the reverse the figure of a pelican feeding its young, and the inscription pro aris et FOCIS, i.e., "for home and hearth;" from this it is also known as the Patriotenthaler.

  For details, including the legend for- merly current, that the pelican fed its off- spring by tearing its own breast, conf. Madai.

La source

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

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