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What (who) is groschen - definition

COIN USED IN VARIOUS GERMAN-SPEAKING STATES AS WELL AS SOME NON-GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL EUROPE

Grosh; Grosso (coin); Grossus

groschen

['gr???(?)n, 'gr??(?)n]

¦ noun (plural same)

1. (until the introduction of the euro in 2002) a monetary unit of Austria, equal to one hundredth of a schilling.

2. historical a small German silver coin.

Origin

Ger., from Mid. High Ger. grosse, from med. L. (denarius) grossus 'thick (penny)'; cf. groat.

Groschen

·noun 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.

Groschen

Groschen (; from "thick", via Old Czech ) a (sometimes colloquial) name for various coins, especially a silver coin used in various states of the Holy Roman Empire and other parts of Europe. The word is borrowed from the late Latin description of a tornose, a grossus denarius Turnosus, in English the "thick denarius of Tours".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groschen

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Groschen

Groschen (German: [ˈɡʁɔʃn̩] (listen); from Latin: grossus "thick", via Old Czech groš) a (sometimes colloquial) name for various coins, especially a silver coin used in parts of Europe such as France, some of the Italian states, England, various states of the Holy Roman Empire, among others. The word is borrowed from the late Latin description of a tornose, a grossus denarius Turnosus, in English the "thick denarius of Tours". Groschen was frequently abbreviated in old documents to gl, whereby the second letter was not an l (12th letter of the alphabet), but an abbreviation symbol; later it was written as Gr or g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groschen