Person
Name	Grosch (Gross), Georg
	Georg Grosch was appointed as mintmaster for the Princes of Anhalt-Zerbst for the mint of Coswig on 22 July 1621. But Grosch accumulated debts, sending a letter to the Prince, wherein he promises to pay all his debts. Any trace is lost soon afterwards. Thormann (1993/94) identifies a rose (Stachelrose) as his personal symbol. Lit.: H. Thormann, Anhalts Kippermünzstätten und ihre Münzmeister, Mitteilungen des Vereins für Anhaltinische Landeskunde 2/3, 1993/1994, pp. 31-105, 44-45. Grosch is problably the same individual recorded as the mintmaster of Gräfenthal in 1622, a certain Georg Gross. Lit.: V. Bornemann, Die Kippermünzen der Herzöge von Sachsen-Altenburg, BfM 62, 1927, pp. 86-103, 116-123, 138-141, 146-155, 167-175, 186-187.
Types	Mintmaster (MM Mod)
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/13135
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Person

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Grosch (Gross), Georg

Georg Grosch was appointed as mintmaster for the Princes of Anhalt-Zerbst for the mint of Coswig on 22 July 1621.

But Grosch accumulated debts, sending a letter to the Prince, wherein he promises to pay all his debts. Any trace is lost soon afterwards.

Thormann (1993/94) identifies a rose (Stachelrose) as his personal symbol.

Lit.: H. Thormann, Anhalts Kippermünzstätten und ihre Münzmeister, Mitteilungen des Vereins für Anhaltinische Landeskunde 2/3, 1993/1994, pp. 31-105, 44-45.

Grosch is problably the same individual recorded as the mintmaster of Gräfenthal in 1622, a certain Georg Gross.

Lit.: V. Bornemann, Die Kippermünzen der Herzöge von Sachsen-Altenburg, BfM 62, 1927, pp. 86-103, 116-123, 138-141, 146-155, 167-175, 186-187.

Types

Mintmaster (MM Mod)

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https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/13135

created

10.05.2024

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