Varga Máté: Középkori és kora újkori aranypénzek. A Kaposvári Rippl-Rónai Múzeum éremgyűjteménye 1. (Kaposvár, 2015)
The Numismatic Collection of the Rippl-Rónai Museum
The numismatic collection is managed by the archaeological department and from the beginning of the Roman age up to the present hard cashes and paper-moneys also can be found in it. First of all the researchers pay attention for the Roman, the medieval, and the Early Modern coins, but some more valuable and interesting pieces also can be found from the 19—20th centuries. The gold coins are considered as the outstanding pieces of collection, from them 30 pieces can class among the medieval and Early Modern pieces (Fig. 1), which is not insignificant compared to collections of other museums. Three Byzantine coins were classified among the medieval coins, which are supposed to be from the migration period by the interior archaeological search but according to the European historiography these are unanimously medieval. The war of liberation from the Ottoman Rule the end of the 17th century means the upper limit. Two of three Byzantine coins were from the early Avar era from the time when the Avars led regular campaigns against Byzantium. It is probable that both coins are from booty or the regular yearly - paid by Byzantium for peace - tribute. One of the coins came to light from an excavation of an Avar grave the other got into the museum as a gift given by Imre Horváth (Fig. 6). The third one is also known from an excavation: % part lay in a grave of a cavalry-man from the age of the Hungarian conquest (Fig. 7). The first piece among the Hungarian coins is Sigismund of Luxemburg’s gold coin from the excavation of the Benedictine Abbey in Somogyvár. No gold coins can be found from the era of Charles Robert, Louis the Great or Queen Mary no wonder because these coins are so rare in the hoards in Hungary and mostly are abroad. There are no gold coins belonging to the kings after Sigismund (Albert the Magnanimous, Vladislaus I) and the governor John Hunyadi but there are two coins of different types from the king Ladislaus the Posthumous. One of them was found by István Magyaros from Alsótapazd the other one was passed from Ecseny into the hand of the museum. One gold coin is known from the era of Matthias Hunyadi from Siójut. No coins came down from the era of Vladislaus II and Louis II but John Szapolyai. This one coin originates from the coin hoard in Balatonendréd from the company of 5 other gold coins and 46 units silverthalers. Lower value gold coins so-called quotient coins are known from the era of Matthias I. The date appeared during the reign of Vladislaus II on the coins. A part of the Hungarian Kingdom - other belonged to the Ottoman Empire and the Principality of Transylvania was partly independent - was under the Habsburg’s authority from 1526 but the Hungarian coinage continued to work and less changes happened to the coin images. 22
