groschenn.
/ˈɡrəʊʃən/ Before the establishment of the present German monetary system, a small silver coin and money of account variously = 1/ 24, 1/ 30, or 1/ 36 of a thaler.
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society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific German or Austrian
groschen1617
shock1617
schilling1753
Reichsmark1872
mark1883
Rentenmark1923
Westmark1947
Deutschmark1948
Ostmark1948
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > German or Prussian coins
hellera1549
kreutzera1549
morkina1549
pfenniga1549
dollar1553
batz1568
fennin1611
groschen1617
mariengroschen1617
mark1727
schilling1753
thaler1787
Joachimsthaler1831
tail-ducat1864
krone1871
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 35 Here each man paid..seuen maria-groshen for meat.
c1622 J. Taylor Wks. (1630) i. 67/1 The Grosh, Potchandle, Stiuer, Doyte, and Sowse Compar'd with me, are all scarce worth a Lowse.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxix. 179 They keep their accounts here in gilders, grosch and phennigen.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 131 Reckoning the quart of wine only at four groshens.
1823 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 149 I am let off for two dollars eight groschen fine.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iii. 80/1 Their Flag..had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. 5 With our Groschen let us rebuild Jerusalem and our holy Temple.
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b. In Austria since 1925, a monetary unit equivalent to 1/ 100 of a schilling; a coin of this value.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Austrian coins
kreutzera1549
schilling1753
zwanziger1828
Maria Theresa1863
krone1893
korona1899
groschen1978
1925 Statesman's Year-bk. 689 The Austrian unit of currency was the krone. But as from June 30, 1925, there came into general use a new unit, the gold shilling, made up of 100 groschen.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 828/1 In December 1945 the Reichsmark currency, which had been in circulation since the Anschluss in 1938, was converted into Austrian schillings (AS) of 100 groschen.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp v. 95 His pocket of loose schillings and worthless groschen.
1990 Washington Times 24 July e1/4 ‘Every Friday we would give out some groschen, which was less than a penny.’.. Mr. Bader's early career had been in the book business, starting out in Vienna Wallishauser.
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