1 Prague Groschen Counterstamped

Frankenberg, a small Saxon mining town, held the right to counterstamp foreign coin as a means of validating currency for local circulation — a practice that bypassed the expense and logistics of reminting. The Prague Groschen, struck in Bohemia and widely circulated across central Europe from the late 13th century onward, was among the most common silver coins to receive such treatment. Krusy F 2,1 identifies the specific Frankenberg punch, distinguishing it from the numerous other municipal counterstamps applied to Bohemian groschen across the region.