Conveners
S75. LATE MIDDLE AGES. EUROPE
- Marcus Phillips (Independent Researcher)
John Hunyadi is known in historiography as a leading figure of the High Middle Ages for his involvement around the mid-15th century in the struggle against Ottoman expansion in the Balkans. However, numismatic studies show that his economic and monetary policies are less well known. Our study, a comprehensive analysis of a coin collection in the National Museum of History of Romania, leads us...
Coin finds are an excellent indicator of economic relations of any state. They allow us to identify a network of commercial and trade activity that each state was involved in.
Based on finds of Moldovan coins from the 14th-15th century, the author will discuss the involvement of this principality in the international trade along the so-called “Moldovan Trade Route” linking Central Europe with...
The coinage of Mircea the Elder (1386-1418) is the most researched topic in Romanian medieval numismatics, justifiably so since most of the Wallachian coins which survive in public collections are issues of Mircea. The main purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the earliest coins of this Wallachian prince in order to highlight the political and economical situation of Wallachia in...
