Nové poznatky o mincovní reformě krále Václava II.
| Title in English | New Findings on the Minting Reform of King Wenceslaus II |
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Folia Numismatica |
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| Field | History |
| Keywords | monetary system; King Wenceslaus II; Florentine financiers in Central Europe; Prague groschen |
| Description | Rinieri, Apardo and Cyno, Florentine business partners, appeared in diplomatic sources from April 1300. In the five following years, they participace various business transactions. Without any doubt, they were those Florentines who in the summer of 1310, according to the Chronicon Aulae Regiae, reformed the existing monetary system and introduced a new coin – the Prague groschen; everything at the behest of Wenceslaus II. The author of this article identifies Apardo with the knight Apardo Donati, the son of Thadeo Donati, Ricineri hypothetically with Rinieri Peruzzi, a member of a famous banker family. The author concludes that, in all likelihood, Florentine company which provided bank services in the Bohemian environment went bankrupt owing to irrecoverable loans to the ruler and Bohemian nobility. |
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