Liczman z zamku Ogrodzieniec. Próba interpretacji
Jeton from Ogrodzieniec Castle. An Attempt at Interpretation

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with a jeton of a sixteenth century date which was found in Ogrodzieniec Castle, Zawiercie District, Poland (now in the collection of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, MGB/A/30/2006:3). The pieces addressed here came to light in 1967 when the Kurza Stopa (Chicken Foot) tower of the castle was cleared of rubble. The most interesting are the sixteenth-century Nuremberg jeton with depictions symbolize their purpose – with an arithmrtician counting on an abacus. Producted by the family of three Hans Schultes, active from 1553 to 1612. That large family clans producting jetons for all of Europe. Some space is accorded in their report to the artistic values of the jetons, and to its value as a sources in the study of the history of Early Modern numismatic market. These were to a great degree an effect of social and economic changes and of contacts with the territories of west and eastern Europe.

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