Brewer's: Kreuzer

(pron. Kroit-zer). A small copper coin in Southern Germany, once marked with a cross. (German, Kreuz, a cross; Latin, crux)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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