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Doitkin

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Dotkin, Dodkin. A foreign coin of small value, prohibited by statute 3 Hen. V. c. 1, from being introduced into England.

Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 351. 3 Reeves' Hist. 261. 4 Bl. Com. 99.

According to Mr. Crabb, it was the Dutch duitkin, of the value of two penningen.