philadelphian: It is a fraction of value but as a meaning I read it was made when 2 people were parting ways so they would not have a dispute they had to make these small face value coins of less value than their metal (fraction of some face value).
"Scheide-" means two or more things go away from eacheother/part from eachother. Many words in German are based on that like the English referee is "Schiedsrichter" (so are I think civil judges between 2 parties are also called Schiedsrichter where Richter is judge, the English "divorce" is "Scheidung" hence such a coin was called "Scheidemünze"
Edited by Cointosser77
02/14/2013 05:46 am
Posted 02/13/2013 11:55 am
