Archive – Hungary
The lustre of all the gold treasures of the world does not make me happy
Although Michael I Apafi had the largest modern gold coins produced he nevertheless remained sceptical towards gold... [ more ]
At the Height of the Thirty Years’ War
Why issued Emperor Ferdinand III a gold medallion on his son’s coronation to King of Hungary and Bohemia only ten years later? This numismatic question leads us in the middle of the bloody Thirty Years’ War and to Wallenstein. [ more ]