Groschen (German: [ˈɡʁɔʃn̩] ; from Latin: grossus "thick", via Old Czech groš) is the (sometimes colloquial) name for various coins, especially a silver...
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The Prague groschen (Czech: pražský groš, Latin: grossi pragenses, German: Prager Groschen, Polish: grosz praski) was a groschen-type silver coin that...
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= 13.7603 schilling to replace it. The schilling was divided into 100 groschen. Following the Carolingian coin reform in 794 AD, new units of account...
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Coinage of Saxony (section Groschen period)
groschen), often subdivided into the schildiger Groschen ("shielded groschen") and Pfahlschildgroschen ("arrow shield groschen) or Landsberg groschen...
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which became parts or multiples of the later pfennig. These include the groschen ("big [pfennig]", from the Latin grossus "big, thick" ), Angster ("narrow...
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Jewish hat (redirect from Judenkopf Groschen)
III the Brave (1425–1482) of Meissen, minted a silver groschen known as the Judenkopf Groschen. Its obverse portrait shows a man with a pointed beard...
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The Threepenny Opera (film) (redirect from Die 3-Groschen-Oper)
The Threepenny Opera (German: Die 3 Groschen-Oper) is a 1931 German musical film directed by G. W. Pabst. Produced by Seymour Nebenzal's Nero-Film for...
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The Meissen groschen (Meißner Groschen) or broad groschen (Breite Groschen) was a Meissen-Saxon silver coin of the 14th and 15th centuries and the regional...
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period. The largest medieval silver coins were known as groat (German Groschen), from denarius grossus or "thick penny". These rarely exceeded a weight...
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independent states (notably Prussia), where a groschen was subdivided into 12 pfennigs, hence half a groschen into 6. After 1871, 12 old pfennigs would be...
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