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Some texts point out that the round leaves look like coins

Corpus Christi College MS 395 — Catalan Lunaria
Translation [f48v] by Marco:

Its leaf is rounded like a silver florin[?],....

If I am correct, a "florin" is a medieval coin. So we have also here a direct reference from Lunaria to a concrete coin ( as comparison ). From there it is not far to the naming as "Silberling" or similar.

The city of Florence founded a mint in 1237 and minted the first silver florin (fiorino d'argento). Until then, the common coin had been the denaro, but this had lost so much of its value with the decline of the Holy Roman Empire that higher-value coins from the then still larger cities of Siena and Lucca also came into circulation.

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Italy Fiorino d'argento 1198-1532 Republic (1198 – 1532) Florence