During the
''Kipper'' and ''Wipper'' period and until the late 18th century, state coins (''Landmünzen''} in the German part of the
Holy Roman Empire
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were those that were not minted according to the relevant imperial standard (''
Reichsfuß''), but using a lesser alloy and thus were only fit for circulation in the territory of their mint masters. There were therefore a type of
fiat coin
Fiat money is a type of government-issued currency that is not backed by a precious metal, such as gold or silver, nor by any other tangible asset or commodity. Fiat currency is typically designated by the issuing government to be legal tender, ...
known as a ''
Scheidemünze
''Scheidemünzen'' (singular – ''Scheidemünze'') were representative money, representative coins or token coins issued alongside ''currency money, Kurantgeld'' or currency money in Austria and Germany up to start of the First World War in Aug ...
''.
State coins were mostly issued in smaller denominations, but from 1687 even Brandenburg 2/3 ''thalers'' bore the designation “Brandenb. Landmünz."
[Schrötter (1930), p. 342.][Kroha (1997), p. 262.]
The term "state coin" (') should not be confused with the term "national coins" or "state coinage" ('), which includes all the coins issued by a country.
See also
*
Kipper mints (Electoral Saxony)
A kipper is a whole Herring as food, herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a Butterflying, butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or Pickling, pickled, and Smoking (cooking)#Types, cold-smoked ...
*
Kippertaler
References
Bibliography
* Kroha, Tyll (1997). ''Großes Lexikon der Numismatik''. 2nd edn. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag.
* Schrötter, Friedrich Frh (1970).''Wörterbuch der Münzkunde''. 2nd, unchanged print of the 1930 edn. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
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Coins of the Holy Roman Empire
Silver coins