A Monetary Hoard Discovered in the Settlement of Cristur (Bihor County). Aspects on the Monetary Circulation of Thalers in Crişana during the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
A Monetary Hoard Discovered in the Settlement of Cristur (Bihor County). Aspects on the Monetary Circulation of Thalers in Crişana during the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: In 1973 a hoard consisting of 68 coins, found near Cristur/Apátkeresztúr (Bihor County), was inventoried in the registers of the museum in Oradea. The majority of these coins are of the three‑groats type issued in the Polish Kingdom (34 items), the Great Duchy of Lithuania (6 items), Transylvania (3 items) and the city of Riga (10 items). The rest of the hoard consists of large coins of great value – thalers – minted in Central and Western Europe (the German and Austrian lands, the Spanish Netherlands, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands). The earliest date of the find is set by a Saxon thaler (Johann Friedrich and Moritz) minted in 1547, while the closing date is 1600 (a Polish three‑groats).

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