Dreiling (coin)

Dreiling (also Dreyling, Dreling or Driling, Latin ternarius, Danish trepenning) was the name of a type of fiat coin called a Scheidemünze that was worth three pfennigs.

The participating cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, Lüneburg, Rostock and Wismar agreed on a uniform appearance for the Dreilings.

Some towns in Mecklenburg, Pomerania and in Denmark minted Dreilings without being a member of the Union.

[1] Schleswig-Holstein struck the last Dreiling in 1850/51 from copper and Hamburg in 1855 from a billon alloy.

Occasionally, the copper 11⁄2 pfennig coins of the 18th century were also referred to as Dreilinge, since they were worth 3 Hellers (Dreyheller).