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The Meissen groschen, Meissen groschen or Meissen-Saxon groschen were Meissen-Saxon silver coins of the 14th and 15th centuries and the regional groschen currency of the Margraves of Meissen and the Dukes of Saxony and Thuringia in the late Middle Ages. It was introduced by Margrave Frederick II of Meissen in 1338/39 under the name Breiter Groschen and minted after the model of the Prague groschen.[1][2] The old Prague groschen still circulating in the margraviate were considered silver pagament (old silver) and reduced in value by a flat rate of 20%. The names Meissen groschen or Freiberg groschen only appeared in the 1350s and 1360s.[3] With the new Breiter Groschen, the entire epoch of coin history, the Groschen period, began until the introduction of the Saxon large silver coinage.
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Silver
Condition:
Mostly preserved
Conductance:
90 - 91
Detector:
Xp Deus 2
Country:
Germany
County:
Northeim
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Coins > Europe > Germany > Germany 600 - 1871 > Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle > Georg Wilhelm (1665 - 1705)
17th century AD
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