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Definition of Groschen

Groschen
Groschen Grosch"en, n. [G.] A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.

Meaning of Groschen from wikipedia

- Groschen (German: [ˈɡʁɔʃn̩] ; from Latin: grossus "thick", via Old Czech groš) is the (sometimes colloquial) name for various coins, especially a silver...
- The Prague groschen (Czech: pražský groš, Latin: grossi pragenses, German: Prager Groschen, Polish: grosz praski) was a groschen-type silver coin that...
- = 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...
- groschen), often subdivided into the schildiger Groschen ("shielded groschen") and Pfahlschildgroschen ("arrow shield groschen) or Landsberg 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...
- which became parts or multiples of the later pfennig. These include the groschen ("big [pfennig]", from the Latin grossus "big, thick" ), Angster ("narrow...
- 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...
- 1806 Area 1150 1,100,000 km2 (420,000 sq mi) Po****tion • 1700 23,000,000 • 1800 29,000,000 Currency Multiple: thaler, guilder, groschen, Reichsthaler...
- (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...
- 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...