Skarb monet z połowy XVI w. z Dobrzynia nad Wisłą

A hoard of 15th-16th century coins was found in Dobrzyn on the Vistula (Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship) on September 8, 1964 during road works. A pot (lost since then) contained 214 coins. They were given to the Leon Wyczolkowski Museum in Bydgoszcz to be registered in the inventory book No MOB/Mo 505-718. This is the first find from that time (tpq 1551) discovered in the Dobrzyn Land. The hoard consists of shillings, half-groschen and Groschen struck chiefly by Polish rulers in the Cracow mint, or by their consent in mints in Torun, Gdansk and Elblag. They make up 85.5 per cent of the complex. Foreign coins: Teutonic Order (9 pieces) and Ducal Prussia (18 pieces), were allowed to circulate over the area of Poland after the monetary union of 1527 when the Cracow mark was acknowledged as the basic unit of Prussian coinage. Conversed to Groschen (approx. 103), the hoard's material value is not high, however, the diversity of nominals occurring in it testifies Dobrzyn's relationships with the cities that took part in waterway trading along the Vistula River. (2 figures)