Back جروشن Arabic Грош Byelorussian Грош BE-X-OLD Грош Bulgarian Groschen German Γκρόσεν Greek Groŝo Esperanto Gros (moneda) Spanish گروش Persian Gros (monnaie) French
Groschen (German: [ˈɡʁɔʃn̩] ⓘ; from Latin: grossus "thick", via Old Czech groš) is the (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".[1] 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.
- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. Akademie, Berlin 1989 and other editions, s. v. (online); Etymological Dictionary of the German Language. Revised by Elmar Seebold. 25th, reviewed and expanded edition. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2011, s. v.; Arthur Suhle: Kulturgeschichte der Münzen. Battenberg, München 1969, p. 117. – According to another thesis by Arthur Suhle: Deutsche Münz- und Geldgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zum 15. Jahrhundert, Battenberg, Munich, 1964, p. 157 this description may refer to the double cross = crossus of the original coinage, which appeared on very many coins of this type until about 1500 und was then later replaced by the imperial apple with the number 24 until the 18th century.