W. C a r e w H a z l i t t Coinage of the European Continent

.Catalogue of E^tropean Denominations 209
Klippe, a generic term for pieces of money struck abroad on a square
flan.
Klippingcr, Swedish square coins, generally money of necessity. The
face-value is,
of course, irregular and arbitrary. A piece of 8 ore of John
III., 1591, is of the size and weight of a or.
Koertling, a species of groschen struck at Osterode in Hanover for
the Dukes of Brunswick-Celle or Zell in the I5th c.
Koggerdaalder, a silver coin worth 30 stivers, ryth c. IV. Friesland.
There is a triple koggerdaalder of 1601, struck, as it is
supposed, expressly
for the Diet or Congress of that year. A 20 ducat piece in gold probably
refers to the same occasion.
Kopek (Russ. kapeek\ the unit of the later Russian coinage. 100 k.
= I rouble.
Kopfchcn, the name conferred on a billon coin of Juliers and Berg,
1
5th c.
Kopfcr doppelschilling. See Doppelschilling.
Kopferzivolfer, a billon coin of Hamm and Osnabruck, iyth c.
Kopfstitch, a silver coin of the Diocese of Treves, i8th c.
*Kopy, Bohemian money of account.
Kornthaler, a silver coin of Hesse-Cassel, I7th c.
Korsvide, a Danish silver coin, I5th c.
Kreutzer, or Kraicjar, a billon or copper coin, originally reckoned as
= 4 pfenningen or 8 heller, and widely diffused through Northern Germany,
Hungary, etc., and even found at Batenborg and elsewhere. It
is said to have had its genesis in the Tyrol. At a very early date two
standards were recognised, the heavy and the light kreutzer : the former
being reckoned 48 to the gulden and 72 to the thaler ;
the latter 60 and
90 respectively. The assis of Strasburgh and Basle was = 6 kreutzer.
A piece marked 60 kr. was struck for Strasburgh-in-Elsas about 1685
with the three fleurs-de-lis, and one of 80 for Anhalt-Bernburg, as money
of necessity, in 1592.
Krona, a silver coin of Sweden and Norway, equal to a franc. It
occurs in the former series in the I7th c. The old krone was = 4 marks.
Kroncnthaler, a silver denomination of Nassau, igth c., and of
Bavaria,
= id. 5 francs.
Kruisrijksdaalder, or Kruisdaalder, silver crown or e"cu with the
Cross of Burgundy, struck by Philip II. for the Netherlands. It is also
known as the Bonrgonsche Knits Rijksdaalder.
Kwartnik, the j groschen of Poland, struck under Casimir the Great,
I333-7 O an(i Vladislas II., Jagellon, 1399-1434, as well as by Louis of
Anjou for Poland and Red Russia.
Lam, the Flemish imitation of the French mouton and agnel cTor.
The former was known in the Low Countries as the groot lam.
Lammpfenning, a class of copper coins, slightly varying in the details
in different issues, struck by the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, I4th c.
See Poole's Cat, 1878, p. 155.
Land Munze, money belonging to a particular province, as distinguished
from scheide munze, or money qualified to pass throughout the empire or
kingdom.
Laub-thaler, the name by which the Germans christened the French
ecu of 6 livres from the laurel branches within which the shield is enclosed.
Whelan says that it was also applied to the Prussian thaler with a similar
wreath.