Definition

• A diminutive of Groschen, is the designation for the small silver coins issued for Silesia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These consisted of one quarter Groschen of the Holy Roman Empire, and later the German rulers continued the practice and struck coins at one quarter and one half of the Kaisergroschen of the respective values of one Groschel and two Groschel.

  A copper coin with the inscription EIN GRESCHL was issued in 1763-65 by Maria Theresa for Transylvania. See Pataz.

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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