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Definition of Batzen

Batzen
Batz Batz, n.; pl. Batzen. [Ger. batz, batze, batzen, a coin bearing the image of a bear, Ger. b["a]tz, betz, bear.] A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.

Meaning of Batzen from wikipedia

- The batzen is an historical Swiss, south German and Austrian coin. It was first produced in Bern, Switzerland, from 1492 and continued in use there until...
- livre tournois. The livre was divided into 20 sols, 10 batzen or 40 kreuzer. After 1690, 30 Bern batzen equated to either a German Reichsthaler (25.984 g fine...
- silver as its most widely used thaler, valued at 4 livres (francs) or 40 batzen of Bern. In 1798 this system was adopted by the Helvetic Confederation with...
- "Ein ****er und ein Batzen", also known by its chorus of "Heidi, heido, heida", (with all three words being modifications of the name Adelheid) is a German...
- later also in Basel, Solothurn and Lucerne. The value of this coin was 10 Batzen. The name franc was taken from the colloquial name of the French livre tournois...
- 40 Batzen Zürich, 1813...
- franc based on the Berne thaler was introduced, in which 10 rappen made one batzen, 10 of which in turn formed one franc. This unified coinage was struck for...
- Gulden Rheinisch = 15 or 16 (later also 17 or 18) Batzen or = 20 Schilling; 1 Batzen = 10 Rappen; 1 Batzen = 4 Kreuzer (in Germany); 1 Schilling = 6 Angster...
- Cistercian abbey of St. Urban near Pfaffnau, mentioning the payment of two Batzen to an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais. 17th–19th century collections...
- represented with a coat of arms inscribed "XIX CANT" or "XIX CANTONE", e.g. 20 Batzen coin minted by Aargau, 1809 (moneymuseum.org), the 1 Frank coin minted by...