Definition

• The name gjiven to both a gold and a silver coin of the Low Countries, which obtains its title from the prominent effigy of St. Peter on the obverse. The Gouden Peter, or Pierre d'or, first ap- peared under -lan III of Brabant (1312- 1355). It was twenty-three and one half carats fine and of half the value of the Rozenobel (q.v.). The Zilveren Peter, or Pietre d 'argent, was a silver coin issued contemporaneously with the preceding, and copied by Jan V von Arkel, Bishop of Liege (1364-1378).

Quelle

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

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