Definition

• also called Klopschel- ling and Placaatschelling. A variety of the Schelling of the Low Countries intro- duced in 1672 in the Province of Gronin- gen, and copied in 1675 at Utrecht. It was hammered or stamped (Kloppen, to beat, to hammer), and the obverse bore a figure of an armed rider, while on the re- verse was the shield of arms dividing the value, six Stuivers. See Zesthalven.

Source

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

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