Definição

• A name given to the silver Groschen issued during the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries by the Ger- man Orders of Knighthood, on account of the varieties of the Maltese cross which is found in some cases on both the obverse and reverse.

  The designation was also generally ap- plied to any coin of this denomination on which a cross was conspicuous. The Gros- chen of Goslar issued in the fifteenth cen- tury is so called from this feature, and one of Meissen receives the same name from a cross over the armorial shield.

Fonte

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

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