Heh - well, not to be overly pedantic about the currency in the game, but I did actually calculate the actual worth of the game Groschen versus real life Groschen based on prices of goods during that time frame. Game Groschen is closer to a real world Pfennig (Penny) than the real world Groschen (actually worth a bit less than a penny). Quite forgivable I suppose, as medieval currency conversions can be a bit confusing to people who are used to a base 10 system.
In the old days they used to cut pieces from their coins. I think that is why they call it bits.
bits of gold or bits of silver. To them I think it is called a silver Groschen kinda like a gold septum.
It’s a Groschen of silver. That would make it a bit of silver🙂
my saddle didn’t degrade at all for a long while until the fools went after me on my horse or the horse, then ya .
Seeing as I have 6 charcoal burner sacks of groshen( G) I didn’t mind doing up keep.
Not much else to spend on for the knight who has everything and richer than sigismann
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so using that reasoning the origin of the coin Pieces of eight in Spanish minting?
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Bits and pieces. I think that made it simple for everyone back then. As you know there were a lot of people who couldn’t even read. Nobody ain’t got time for that. lol…
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I usually just buy new stuff from Neohalf and steal it right back from the trunk. They really should post a guard there😆
I’ve never fought from horseback, and my saddles seem to fall apart as quickly as for the OP. But, with 146K groschen, I don’t mind dropping a few hundred on a new saddle once in a while.
Noble knight always fights frome horseback. Moving mud with his feet is for puny peasants…aghrrrr…where is my lance,Baldrick? 
What ho?! Is that The Black Vegetable??? I mean, The Black Adder?
Whats wrong with you, swangaorpqey???
If I recall rightly, Queen Elizabeth executed those who clipped coins. Seems rough, but she wanted to
have a stable and trusted monetary system.
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Yeah I think past a certain time period everyone stopped clipping coins. It might have been Queen Elizabeth first🙂 Might go look that up.
The act of clipping was a serious criminal offence as it undermined the currency of the country. It was such a problem that in Britain clipping was high treason and punishable by death. In 1677
I guess this was still legal in Henry’s time.
Prager Groschen were not clipped. The volume of silver was changing. King Wenceslaus II. was originator of monetary reform in Bohemia in A.D.1300 and introduced “grossus Pragensis” (lat.) as standard money. Silver was chosen as a metal due to rich findings of siler deposits around Kuttenberg. Volume of silver in coin was ~93%. As time passed,volume decreased. During reign of Charles IV. it dropped to ~80% and in our game period with king Wenceslaus IV. it decreased further to ~62%.
During 250 years of minting in Kuttenberg ~500 milion coins were produced.
It was a valid currency across Europe in those times. Late medieval €
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I guess WAR… war never changes 
Great info, thanks! That’s a big part of what I love about this game - the info good folk bring to the fora, and the personal research it leads me to do.
BTW - you can buy period groschen very easily - bought 2 on ebay, one pretty good quality for about $30, one less quality for about $12.
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I might look into buying some myself 
Thanks 
Prager groschen had also one of the first anti-forgery systems implemented = ribbed edges. It was easily recognized visualy if coin was “clipped”. This system is used on coins till today.
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That makes sense 
It is even a quest in the game duh lol…