Tale to the Cologne Mark. Standard.
Loth. Grs.
1226—
The Gros Tournois minted at Tours in France (58 to the troy mark) 55 1⁄10 15 6
1296—
Groschen of Bohemia and Meissen 63 1⁄2 15 0
1324—
Groschen of Meissen 64 1⁄2 15 0
1341—
Groschen of Bohemia 78 10 0
1350—
Meissen 91 14 0
1364—
Bohemia 74 1⁄2 9 0
1378—
Bohemian groschen, as by the Constitution of Charles IV. and Wenceslaus 70 14 1
1380—
Meissen 72 13 0
1407—
Würzburg (74 to the Würzburg mark) 72 40⁄131 8 0
1444—
Saxony and Meissen 88 7 13
1444—
Frederick II. of Saxony (four kinds of groschen) 160 16 0
120 12 0
104 8 0
1484—
Archduke Sigismund of Austria (8 gulden groschen to the Vienna mark) 6 206⁄307 16 0
1490—
Schwart groschen 103 5 0
Large groschen of Hesse 112 6 0
Hamburg 104 9 15
Lübeck 107 9 13
Bohemia 84 612
(18 other species concurrent.)
1524—
Imperial Mint Ordinance of Charles V. 136 12 0
1551—
Imperial Mint Ordinance of Charles V. (16 contemporary species.) 94 1⁄2 7 5
100 7 6
1559—
Imperial Mint Ordinance of Ferdinand I.—Reichs groschen 108 1⁄2 8 0
1572—
Lower Saxony—Silver groschen 108 1⁄2 8 0
Lower Saxony—Marien groschen 155 1⁄2 7 11
1573—
Brandenburg 108 8 3 1⁄2
1610—
Lower Saxony 116 14 4
1617—
Lower Saxony 144 8 0
1622—
Higher and Lower Saxony 108 1⁄2 8 0
1667—
Brunswick and Luneberg—
Good groschen 160 10 0
Marien groschen 192 8 0
1669—
The Three Circles (Franconia, Bavaria, and Swabia) 141 2⁄3 8 0
1680—
The Three Circles (Franconia, Bavaria, and Swabia) 141 8 0
1690—
Leipzig standard—Good groschen 150 8 0
Leipzig standard—Marien groschen 162 1⁄2 5 14
1738—
As adopted in comitiis
Groschen 125 6 2
Imperial groschen 134 49⁄64 513 1⁄4
Marien groschen 171 6 0

FOOTNOTES:

[24] Heller were first minted in 1228 at Halle, but by the year 1420 they had sunk to the equivalence of a half-pfennige. Of the origin of the kreutzer less is known, as few, if any, records of it occur before its minting in the Tyrol in 1490. Its subsequent variation in different parts of Germany, and at different times, it is almost impossible to give account of.


APPENDIX VI

THE MONETARY SYSTEM OF FRANCE

The metric system on which the French Mint was worked throughout the period treated of in this work up to the Revolution was as follows:—

1 mark = 8 oz.
" = 64 gros. (8 × 8).
" = 192 dens. (64 × 3).
" = 4608 grs. (192 × 24).

An alternative subdivision of the ounce was as follows:—