Reichs-Müntze

fl. kr. dl.
1 Ducat [3.5 / 3.45 g Au] = 4 Gulden
1 Species Thaler = 2 Gulden
1 Reichsthaler = 90 Kreutzer
1 Gulden / fl. = 60 Kreutzer
= 240 Pfennige
1 Halber Gulden = 30 Kreutzer
1 Kopffstück = 20 Kreutzer
1 Ort (Fünffzehner) = 15 Kreutzer
1 Sechser = 6 Kreutzer
1 Halber Ort = 7½ Kreutzer
1 Zweyfache Landmüntze (Fünffer) = 5 Kreutzer
1 Batzen = 4 Kreutzer
1 Kayser-Groschen = 3 Kreutzer
1 Einfache Landmüntze = 2½ Kreutzer
1 Halber Batzen = 2 Kreutzer
1 Kreutzer / kr. = 4 Pfennige
1 Pfennig / dl. = 2 Heller
1 Heller

Accounting in Reichs-Gulden, Kreutzer and Pfennige was especially common in the southern German centres of trade.

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Hamburgische Müntze

Rthl. M. ß. dl.
M. ß. dl.
1 Ducat [3.5 / 3.45 g Au] = 2 Reichsthaler, 2 Marck
1 Pfund Flämmisch = 20 Schillinge Flämmisch
= 240 Groten Flämmisch
= 2 Reichsthaler, 1½ Marck
1 "gemüntzter" or Species-Thaler  = 1 Reichsthaler, 1 Marck
1 Reichsthaler / Thl. or Rthl. = 3 Marck
= 8 Schillinge Flämmisch
= 48 Schillinge Lübisch
1 Marck Lübisch / M. = 16 Schillinge Lübisch
1 Schilling Flämmisch = 6 Schillinge Lübisch
= 12 Grooten Flämmisch
1 Schilling Lübisch / ß. = 2 Groten Flämmisch
= 12 Pfennige
1 Grot Flämmisch or "Seßling" = 6 Pfennige
1 Pfennig Lübisch / dl.

The Marck Lübisch was shared by Hamburg and Lübeck. Sums were either given in Thaler, Marck, Schillinge and Pfennige or in the latter three coins. The "Pfund Flämmisch" (German for "pond Vlaems") served as an international currency of accounting.

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Exchange rate: Reichs-Gulden = Reichsthaler

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