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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1112741, member: 39&quot;]Fully agreed! As for the map, while that modern gives you a rough idea of where the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst was, it suggests a &quot;contiguous&quot; territory that the old principality did, like most countries in the Holy Roman Empire, not really have. What the map shows is the Landkreis (county) of Anhalt-Zerbst that existed until 2007.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the word &quot;Groschen&quot;, that is derived from the &quot;denarius grossus&quot;, ie. &quot;thick penny&quot;. And yes, in a way the Groschen drove the name Schilling out. Interestingly, in Austria before the euro, both &quot;schilling&quot; and &quot;groschen&quot; were official currency unit names ... with 100 groschen being 1 schilling. So instead being &quot;equal&quot;, one was now worth a hundred times more than the other. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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