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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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    pfennigs. The 'prince's groschen' (Fürstengroschen) set a record in terms of the devaluation of the Meissen groschen. When this groschen was introduced in March...
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    ("helmet groschen") or Thuringian groschen was a true-value (guthaltig) groschen minted under Margrave Frederick the Quarrelsome of Meissen and Landgrave...
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    Legnica, Poland (2017) List of margraves of Meissen Proschwitz Rulers of Saxony Saxon Switzerland Meissen groschen Bürgermeisterwahlen 2018, Freistaat Sachsen...
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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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  • at 24 groschen in 1542, the Meissen gulden remained in use in Saxony as an accounting coin at 21 groschen until the 19th century. The Meissen gulden...
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  • kopa is equal to 60. Germans had a similar unit, the Schock, to count Meissen groschen minted by Frederick II, Elector of Saxony and William III, Landgrave...
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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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    Bartgroschen (category Groschen)
    The Bartgroschen ("beard groschen") was a Saxon coin minted in 1492 and 1493 and embossed with an image of the bearded Duke Frederick III, the Wise (1486–1525)...
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  • Mariengroschen (category Groschen)
    were entrusted with coin supervision, followed this development. The Meissen Groschen gained influence through the debasement of the Mariengroschen. In the...
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    Schildgroschen (Hesse) (category Groschen)
    the groschen type, based on the Meissen-Saxon Schildgroschen, one of the late medieval, Groschen period coins that was very similar to the Meissen Schildgroschen...
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    art. William 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...
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    Johann Samuel Mock Crown Regalia of King Augustus and Maria Josepha 6 groschen, 1763 History of Saxony History of Poland (1569–1795) Rulers of Saxony...
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    cost 8,230 thalers, 18 groschen and 9 pfennigs. The butt, which was once completely filled with country wine from the Meißen vineyards, had to be removed...
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    a hereditary vassal to the Polish Crown in exchange for 10,000 Prague groschen and fief Duchy of Belz. The agreement was solidified by marriage of Siemowit...
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    Christian, Margrave of Meissen Prince Ernst Heinrich 17th generation Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen Albert, Margrave of Meissen 18th generation Prince...
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    also reflected by their membership fee: 720 groschen for the bishop, 360 groschen for the dukes and 60 groschen for other members. The fee was supposed to...
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    (twenty). The type was copied elsewhere in Europe and became widely known as Groschen. Already in 1267 Count Meinhard had once again tried to strengthen the...
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    twenty-four boys, one table free, and the other, for a weekly fee of 7 groschen by any person" The Duke understood "how sometimes . . . poor people's children...
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    Siewierz to the Bishop of Kraków Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki for 6,000 silver Groschen in 1443. This tiny duchy had its own laws, treasury and army. In 1790,...
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    pfennig period (bracteate period), which was minted until the late medieval groschen time. These coins are mostly of the Hohlpfennig or "hollow pfennig" type...
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