Wendentaler

thumb|Wendenthaler, Lüneburg, 1541 The Wendenthaler or Wendentaler was a currency coin minted in Lüneburg from 1541, which depicted the six coats of arms of the Wendish towns.

In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 32 inbound references to Wendentaler, and connects out to thaler, Norwegian rigsdaler and silver.

Vinony files it under Coins of the Holy Roman Empire, Currency unions and Hanseatic League.

Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: coin
Country: Lüneburg
Material used: silver
Image: Wendentaler lueneburg1541.png

Show 2 more facts

URL: www.helmutcaspar.de/aktuelles17/muenzmed17/wenden.htm
inception: 1541-00-00

Sources (1)

wikidata.org

via Wikidata · CC0

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

1 sections

Contents

References

thumb|Wendenthaler, Lüneburg, 1541 The Wendenthaler or Wendentaler was a currency coin minted in Lüneburg from 1541, which depicted the six coats of arms of the Wendish towns.

These included the coats of arms of Rostock and Stralsund. The coin bore the inscription "Statutus duarum Marcarum Lubicensis", i.e. "Fixed at two Lübeck Marks". Its value was 2 Marks = 28.70 g.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wendentaler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.