Scheidemünze
Illustration — Scheidemünze 1 Pfenning, A Scheidemünzen (singular – Scheidemünze) were representative coins or token coins issued alongside Kurantgeld or currency money in Austria and Germany up to start of the First World War in August 1914 whose intrinsic metal value was less than the legal value stamped on them. Like Notgeld ("emergency money") they were a kind of credit money or fiat money. The term Scheidemünze ("division money") referred to the "division into hellers and pfennigs during the purchase process" ("Scheiden auf Heller und Pfennig beim Kaufvorgang").
Scheidemünze
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Illustration — Scheidemünze 1 Pfenning, A Scheidemünzen (singular – Scheidemünze) were representative coins or token coins issued alongside Kurantgeld or currency money in Austria and Germany up to start of the First World War in August 1914 whose intrinsic metal value was less than the legal value stamped on them. Like Notgeld ("emergency money") they were a kind of credit money or fiat money. The term Scheidemünze ("division money") referred to the "division into hellers and pfennigs during the purchase process" ("Scheiden auf Heller und Pfennig beim Kaufvorgang").
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It thus applied to the low- to medium-value coins and is often translated as small change coin, small-coin change or just small coin. Since 1915, all coins minted in Germany, including the current euro coins have been Scheidemünzen or fiat money as opposed to currency or commodity money whose nominal value is fully covered by its intrinsic value.
Scheidemünze is a coin or coin type.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 4568518-6, Scheidemünze.
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- “Scheidemünze”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q834400: Scheidemünze
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 4568518-6, Scheidemünze.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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