DREILING: COIN OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN
1 dreiling, 1850: Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein — the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig. Schleswig and Holstein were two duchies under the Danish kings from 1460, but they were not part of the Kingdom. The majority of the population was Germans.
This dreiling coin was issued in the period of the First Schleswig War (also known as the Schleswig-Holstein Uprising) — military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question: who should control the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which at the time were ruled by the king of Denmark in a personal union.
1 DREILING - 1850.
SCHLESW. HOLSTEIN. SCHEIDEMÜNZE: exchange coin of Schleswig-Holstein.
Scheidemünze term applied to the low- to medium-value coins in Austria and Germany up to start of the First World War and is often translated as small change coin, small-coin change or just small coin.
T.A.: Theodor C.W. Andersen — Mintmaster of the Royal Mint in Altona (now: district of Hamburg, Germany; early: territory of Denmark).
Microsymbol under the T.A. sign — Globus cruciger (the orb and cross), — as mintmark of Altona.
Coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein (Oldenburg dynasty): two heraldic lions (Schleswig) and a nettle leaf cut into three parts (so-called Nesselblatt /nettle-leaf/ of the counts of Holstein).
H.L. under the Coat of arms: sign of Engraver Carl Heinrich Lorenz.
Mintage: 203.000.
- Copper: 23 mm - 4.87 g
- Reference price: 12.5$
COIN DREILING — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
- GERMAN STATES, 15th-19th centuries (Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, City of Flensburg, City of Greifswald, Free Hanseatic city of Hamburg, Bishopric and Free Hanseatic city of Lübeck, Archbishopric of Mainz, Grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, City of Rostock, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, City of Wismar, Danish duchies of Schleswig and Holstein...): dreiling = 3 pfennig
DREILING as coin name.
Dreiling — German historical coin equal to 3 pfennigs. It was produced mainly from silver, less often from copper.
Some of the first known dreiling appeared in German lands as early as the beginning of the 15th century in Mainz and Greifswald. These were small silver coins weighing up to 1 gram.
Later, during the next more than 4 consecutive centuries, the coin was issued almost exclusively only in the north of modern Germany: Hamburg, Lauenburg, Lübeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Schleswig-Holstein...
Coins were mainly minted in 1 dreiling. It is also known about the existence of a denomination of ½ dreiling: we are talking about a Lauenburg copper coin of the 18th century.
The last dreilings (next to the sechslings — equivalent to 6 pfennigs) are dated 1855; the issuer is the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German "Freie Stadt und Hansestadt Hamburg").
The plot of the dreilings of the German city-states was the most diverse; there is no common feature.
The name of the dreiling coin is literally translated from German as "the one that equates to three" (we are talking about three pfennigs). Obsolete equivalents in the monetary systems of other countries: trojak, ternar...
