Bohemia, Prague Groschen, brass coin replica, ca. 1980-2005 AD.

Bohemia, Prague Groschen, brass coin replica for Prague tourists, ca. 1980-2005 AD.,
Æ 35 (34-35 mm / 33,27 g / 5 mm thick),
Obv.: DЄI GRATIA RЄX BOЄMIЄ / KAROLVS PRIMVS , two lines of inscriptions within dotted circles, crown in center field.
Rev.: GROSSI PRAGЄNSЄS , Czech double tailed crowned lion rampant left.
Edge: a square punchmark: Crown
(unknown issueer and mint) .

Eine moderne Nachprägung eines Prager Groschens mit besonderer Dicke (ca. 5 mm). Im Rand ist eine Punze eingeschlagen, die eine Krone darstellt.

"heripo": "Beim Besuch des Hradschin oder der örtl. Mussen in Prag kannst man diese und ähnliche Nachprägungen billig erwerben.
Hier wird an Karl I. - also als Böhm. König der Erste - ( und nicht an ihn als Kaiser des Röm.Reichs erinnert - Kaiser Karl V. )"

The Prague groschen (Czech: pražský groš, Latin: grossi pragenses, German: Prager Groschen, Polish: Grosz praski) was a groschen-type silver coin that became very common throughout the Medieval Central Europe. The inspiration came from France where groschen were used since 1266 and replaced old coin called denar. The name came from the Latin denarius grossus (English: thick denar).
It is a silver coin with obverse sign DEI GRATIA REX BOEMIE (English: By the grace of God the king of Bohemia) and on the verso GROSSI PRAGENSIS (Czech: Pražský groš, English: Prague groschen). Weight of the coin related between 3.5 and 3.7 g with fineness 933/1000 of silver.
Minting of this coin started around 1300 after silver mines had been discovered in Hory Kutné during the reign of the Bohemian king Wenceslaus II. King Wenceslaus II. invited italian lawyer Gozzius of Orvieto who created mining code Ius regale montanorum whose part was also a coin reform. This and high amount of silver found in Kutná hora resulted in the implementation of Prague groschen. Because of high amount of silver used in the coin it became one of the most popular of the early Groschen-type coins in the medieval Europe.
In documents of the era, like the Peace of Thorn (1411), large amounts of money often were given in more convenient Latin: sexagena of Prague groschen, which equals to Czech: kopa = 5 dozen = ½ small gross = 60.
After the opening of new silver mines in Jáchymov (Joachimsthal) the Thaler, in the Bohemia known as tolar, came in use. In 1547, minting of Prague groschen was discontinued by Ferdinand I.