I'm looking for the full name of a coin used in Hamburg around 1730 with the abbreviation Sl. (l from leopard)with a possible indication of the corresponding value that it should have today in every life, not the value as a collector's item.
If you want to find out a value of a coin of this type then you go through a coin's weight (and purity) as the silver content was the main guarantor of a currencies value. Look at the relevant coin foot and compare yours to it or much simpler … provide us the coin you are talking about. But my first guess would simply be: it's an abbreviation for Schilling.
To clarify: I do not have the coin in my possession, i have just the mention of the abbreviation in a newpaper ‘s ad from that time in the “Hamburger Zeitung”. “Schilling” could be a good candidate. My second question is then the equivalent value of that Schilling in today’s euros?
To clarify: I do not have the coin in my possession, i have just the mention of the abbreviation in a newpaper ‘s ad from that time in the “Hamburger Zeitung”. “Schilling” could be a good candidate. My second question is then the equivalent value of that Schilling in today’s euros?
Send a image of the newspaper ad for context, Sl could mean anything. And to be quite honest a small l in Sl as you typed in your original question wouldn’t be an initial of leopard, as a name initial would be a large L or Leo, not a small l after a large S. Sl will be an abbreviation of a single German or Latin word. Context is everything, and your question lacks context.
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Sorry, no newspaper, it is just a quote in some preface in a music score: “The second set of 50 minuets will be for sale ... at a price of 6 Sl. … ”. Sorry also for the distracting leopard (was just to indicate the letter l)
Yeah that's obviously 6 Schilling and would equate to 1/8 Thaler, 3/8 Mark or 72 Pfennig, ~6.5g Ag. That would be ~13€ silver today or 10-50€ in purchasing power depending on what you would have bought with it.
