Folia archeologica 47.

István Gedai: Egy 13. századi pénzhamisító műhely

A FORGERS' WORKSHOP 143 ings, even from alloys obtained from different places. Planchets made in course of different castings are documented by the highly variable silver/copper ratio at the different items. In the original exemplars of the Museum, silver content is always over 91 % while coins and planchets of the find assemblage are typically under 90 %, sometimes silver content is below 80 %. Most of the planchets are of irregular shape, only 3 pieces are regular circles, prepared probably already for minting. We can hardly find parallels of such planchets in archaeological finds. Only the Nagyharsány find assemblage yielded 5 comparable pieces . The two finds, however, cannot be compared. They are separated by more than two centuries; the Nagyharsány find contains authentic coins in a period when the average weight of the Hungarian coins used to be 1.24 g. Thus the planchets of 0,23-0,46 g weight could not be used for counterfeiting by any means. The similar phenomenon, however, demand mentioning, although the planchets appearing in both find assemblages only add up more question marks to our subject. In spite of all uncertainties, this find is an outstanding material remains of the period, both from a historical and a numismatical point of view. BIBLIOGRAPHY GEDAI 1986 Gedai I., A magyar pénzverés kezdete. Bp. 1986. HÓMAN 1916 Hóman В., Magyar pénztörténet. Bp. 1916. HUSZÁR 1979 Huszár, L„ Münzkatalog Ungarn von 1000 bis heute Bp. 1979. CNH