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Achtehalber

means actually " eight halves " or four, but popularly " eight less one half, " or seven and a half. The term was used in Prussia for the piece of two and a half Silbergroschen which was equal to seven and a half Schillinge.


Source: Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)
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