The Courantmark was one particularly in the range of the north Germans of Hanseatic cities common and a forerunner of the realm Marks and the German Marks.

The Mark as coin goes back on the unit of weight Mark. In Luebeck 13 applied at the latest since that. Century the Cologne Mark, which corresponded to 233.856 gram. There the Mark became the in the year 1502, i.e. appropriate silver coins were coined/shaped. This Courant Mark was currency of the medieval-earlymodern Wendi at the same time and due to the trading nation of the Hanseatic cities in the entire Baltic Sea area.

Also after end of the Wendi the Courantmark remained in the north Germans Hanseatic cities before the Taler most common currency. In the Baltic Sea area them were to in 19. Century the central as it is occupied literarily also in of Thomas's man Buddenbrooks, and was only replaced by the realm Marks.

After the establishment of the German Reich the Mark of 1873 became generally accepted north Germans as compromise between the Taler and the South German gulden as German

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