Groschen
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Groschen is the name for various coins, especially a silver coin used in parts of Europe, including some of the Italian states, and various states of the Holy Roman Empire.
Barile (large groschen), Florence, 1506
Teutonic Order groschen of the 14th century
Tyrolean groschen of 1286
A Fürstengroschen of Landgrave Balthasar of Thuringia from the Freiberg Mint, 1405–1406
Prague groschen
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The Prague groschen was a groschen-type silver coin that was issued by Wenceslaus II of Bohemia since 1300 in the Kingdom of Bohemia and became very common throughout Medieval Central Europe.
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…According to one source, the city of Trier is said to have struck groschen-like, thick pfennigs as early as 1104, which were then followed in 1300 by the Bohemian groschen from Kuttenberg. The new coin soon inspired other 'mint lords' (Münzherren) and was given, not least for reasons of economic necessity, a higher face…
Three Lithuanian Groschen of Žygimantas Augustas with Vytis, minted in Vilnius, 1565