Conveners
S78. MODERN TIMES 1. CENTRAL EUROPE
- Frank Berger (Historisches Museum Frankfurt)
The Ottoman Era was a period of permanent changes. However many wars afflicted the Hungarian Kingdom, its economic system could still develop, even if it took more time than expected. The Hungarian monetary system faced a huge problem, which was the lack of smaller denominations. The Habsburg rulers tried to integrate and standardize different economic and monetary systems found within their...
Over the course of several decades between the middle of the 16th and the start of the 17th century, several types of Swiss silver coins became a very important part of the money circulation in Bohemia. The influx of Swiss coins into this territory was considered by the then economists and politicians of the day as one of the reasons for the rapidly rising prices. However, the real reasons...
The subject of the paper will be the monetary circulation in Silesia in the period after the great monetary reform (1623) of Ferdinand II, aimed at ending the great inflation (Kipper und Wipperzeit), which affected monetary units in the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Bohemia, Silesia included. This study looks into the monetary situation on the market during the Thirty Years’ War and ten...
Alongside silver and gold, copper is the third typical minting metal, an integral part of many of the coinage systems of Greek and Roman antiquity. In medieval Europe, however, silver currency prevailed, supplemented by gold from the 13th century onwards; copper served as an additive to the silver alloy, which could lead to crises when misused. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, copper...
