Schock (coin)


The schock was a historical coin of account in the Kingdom of Saxony as well as in Bohemia and Silesia.
In the Kingdom of Saxony, a distinction was made, based on the old use of the word, whereby 1 schock = 60 units:
  • 1 old shock = 60 small schockgroschen = 20 good groschen, it corresponded to of a Convention guilders = 75 kreuzer;
  • 1 new or heavy schock = 60 good groschen = 3 old schocks, worth of a Convention gulden = 225 kreuzers.
There were also different units of currency called the schock in Bohemia and Silesia :
  • 1 old Bohemian schock = 60 Böhmen, worth Speciesthaler = 3 Convention guilders = 180 kreuzers;
  • 1 new or small Bohemian schock = 40 Böhmen = old bohemian schocks, whereby 1 Speciesthaler = 2 Convention guilders = 60 double kreuzers;
  • 1 schock Gröschel = 60 Gröschel = old Bohemian schocks, corresponding to Convention guilders = 45 kreuzers = 180 pfennigs.
A Böhmen was the name of the groschen in Prague and Bohemia; a Gröschel was also called a Fledermaus.

Literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger: Vollständiges Handbuch der Münzen, Maße und Gewichte aller Länder der Erde. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg/Leipzig 1830, p. 94.
  • Johann Jacob Ebert: Unterweisung in den philosophischen und mathematischen Wissenschaften: für die obern Classen der Schulen und Gymnasien. Christian Gottlieb Hertel, Leipzig 1779, p. 227.