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nydus/The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896Public
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APPENDIX V

recognised temporarily a whole series of then-current pfennige. Thus—

Strasburg pfennige,126to the gulden.
Würtemberg"168"
Rappen"157 1 ⁄ 2"
Rhenish"210"
Saxon"252"
Räder"312"

As explained in the text (p. 96), this ordinance came nowhere into observance, and twenty-nine years later Charles V. issued his second Imperial Ordinance at the Reichstag of Augsburg (1551).

The system then attempted to be instituted was based on a mark of fine silver = 10 florins 12 1⁄2 kreutzers but in denomination a double system

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