funeral coin
The obverse of such a coin usually depicts the portrait of the deceased; the reverse may show the coat of arms and important biographic data. Around the middle of the 16th century, funeral coins were issued in some states of the Holy Roman Empire. Their minting was frequent until the end of the eighteenth century, especially in the Electorate of Saxony and the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg; in Prussia, on the other hand, there were only a few funeral coins, so in 1713 on the occasion of the death of King Frederick I and 1786 after the death of Frederick the Great.
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Usually, funeral coins are commemorative coins of precious metals with high nominal values, but there are also funeral coins as currency money. Frequently the coins are designated according to their type with (German) terms like Sterbet(h)aler, Sterbegulden, Sterbedukaten or Sterbegroschen.
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- 1.Carl Christoph Schmieder: Handwörterbuch der gesammten Münzkunde für Münzliebhaber und Geschäftsleute. Buchhandlung des Hallischen Waisenhauses, Halle 1811
- 2.Ferdinand Friedensburg: Deutsche Münzgeschichte. In: Aloys Meister (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Geschichtswissenschaft. Band 1, Abteilung 4. 2. Auflage. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig und Berlin 1912, S. 98-132
- 3.Friedrich von Schrötter et al. (ed.): Wörterbuch der Münzkunde. 2. unveränderte Auflage. de Gruyter, Berlin 1970, Reprint 2012, (Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1930), Lemma "Begräbnis- oder Sterbemünzen".
- 4.Colin R. Bruce, Fred J. Borgmann und Elizabeth A. Burgert (eds.): Standard Catalog of German Coins. 1601 to present, including colonial issues. 2nd Edition. Krause Publications, Iola (WI), USA 1998, .
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