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Régészettudomány - Nagy Zsolt Dezső: A kora újkori főúri pénzhamisítás forrásaihoz

NAGY ZSOLT DEZSŐ: A KORA ÚJKORI FŐÚRI PÉNZHAMISÍTÁS FORRÁSAIHOZ

Zsolt Dezső Nagy

Additions to the sources about the so-called Noblemen's counterfeiting during the Hungarian Early Modern Ages

This paper is a short brief about the written sources on the coin counterfeiting activity in the first half of the 16th century. This period is called as the “noblemen’s counterfeiting”, because many Hungarian noblemen - mostly powerful barons - organized and maintained workshops in their castles. In my paper, I would like to revise and supplement information and statements from older literature. However, many scholars - András Komáromy, Zoltán Gálocsy, Imre Bohdaneczky, Andor Leszih, Lajos Huszár, Frigyes Kahler, László Káplár, Attila Gaál, Jenő Nagy, Márton Gyöngyössy and Máté Varga - studied this topic before, we have still unanswered questions. I have used the biggest base of information as a guideline that is the collection of laws, orders and written memories of negotiations from diets. This

paper also would like to mention case studies, e. g. trial and other kinds of legal documents about counterfeiter noblemen’s lives. Most sources have been published as a part of the History of Hungarian law. Sometimes they has got only an interpretation from this aspect. I would like to value them as sources of a period that are important for economy historians and numismatists, so their relevance is bigger than we have thought it. Nowadays, metal detector users and some excavations produced many new forgeries or workshops, so the need of the clearance of the historical background is high. I would like to present how diets and laws were changed during this period and emphasize the personal interlocking between the “real” counterfeiters and sued disloyal noblemen.

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