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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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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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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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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1806 Area 1150 1,100,000 km2 (420,000 sq mi) Population • 1700 23,000,000 • 1800 29,000,000 Currency Multiple: thaler, guilder, groschen, Reichsthaler...
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with its name to the guilder whereas the grosz subunit was based on the groschen, cognate to the English word groat. It was officially introduced to replace...
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three types of coins, which were the Schilling and Groschen, made out of copper, and the six Groschen (1/5 Gulden) coins struck as pattern coins, struck...
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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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The Guter Groschen ("good groschen"), also Gutergroschen or Gutegroschen, abbreviation Ggr., is name of the groschen coin that was valued at 1⁄24 of a...
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Kraków grosz (redirect from Krakau Groschen)
krakowski, German: Krakauer Groschen) were medieval silver coins minted in 14th century Kraków. Following the Bohemian Prague groschen in use since 1300, and...
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into 24 Groschen, each of 12 Pfennige. In Prussia proper, it was subdivided into 3 Polish Gulden = FL = Zloty , each of 30 Groschen (each Groschen = 18 Pfennige)...
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production a royal monopoly and issued the Prague groschen, which became the most popular of the early Groschen-type coins. Kutná Hora was one of the richest...
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Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958 (redirect from Für zwei Groschen Musik)
'"Für zwei Groschen Musik", at the 1958 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 12 March in Hilversum, Netherlands. "Für zwei Groschen Musik" was...
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Latin grossus ("thick").[citation needed] It is cognate with the German Groschen and Hungarian garas. The Ottoman kuruş was introduced in 1688. It was initially...
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Duke Henry II of Münsterberg. William minted a silver groschen known as the Judenkopf Groschen. Its obverse portrait shows a man with a pointed beard...
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Kreuzer was abbreviated as Kr, kr, K or Xr. The kreuzer goes back to a groschen coin minted in Merano in South Tyrol in 1271 (the so-called etscher Kreuzer)...
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Silbergroschen (redirect from Silver groschen)
The Silbergroschen was a coin used in Prussia and several other German Confederation states in northern Germany during the 19th century, worth one thirtieth...
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to regularly place an Anno Domini date on a general circulation coin, a groschen. The Scotch Club in Aachen was the first discothèque in Germany, opened...
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Vereinsthaler. Some other north German states, such as Hanover, used the name Groschen rather than Silbergroschen for a coin of 12 Pfennig (see Hanoverian Vereinsthaler)...
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the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, minted the Lithuanian denarius, shillings, groschen, thalers, ducats, and other coins from 1387 to 1666. Crafting declined...
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technical terms and conditions necessary for the operation of mines. Prague groschen were minted between 1300 and 1547/48. In December 1402, the town was sacked...
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films show tango in several scenes, such as: The Threepenny Opera (Die 3-Groschen-Oper) (1931), directed by G. W. Pabst, has number called Tango Ballade...
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16 Gute Groschen from 1825 King George IV of Great Britain and Hanover...
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Rhenish Gold Gulden that was established in Saxony in 1490 at a value of 21 groschen and which, from 1542 to 1838 became a coin of account (a notional accounting...
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(8 groschen) 40 to 1 fine mark of silver, Kurantmünze 001⁄6 thaler (4 groschen), 80 to 1 fine mark of silver, Kurantmünze 01⁄12 thaler (2 groschen), 160...
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