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
Coinage of Saxony
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The history of Saxon coinage or Meissen-Saxon coinage comprises three major periods: the high medieval regional pfennig period, the late medieval pfennig period and the thaler period, which ended with
A 1768 Ausbeutetaler of Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony from the Dresden Mint. The inscription reads THE BLESSING OF MINING / X A FINE MARCK
Sachsenpfennige (wooden church, beam cross, cloverleaf cross and crosier pfennig)
The so-called "thin pfennig", 11th century, Magdeburg Imperial Mint
Margraviate of Meissen, Margrave Otto the Rich (1156–1190), bracteate