Un tezaur monetar din secolele XV-XVI descoperit la Oradea (cartierul Ioşia)
A 15th and 16th Century Coin Hoard from Oradea – Iosia (Bihor County)

Summary/Abstract: The monetary discovery analyzed in the previous pages is a hoard found in in 1971 in the area of Oradea city currently preserved in the collection of the Criş County Museum (Bihor county). The hoard consists of 1584 small silver coins (denar) issued between 1468 and 1594 by the Hungarian kings: Mátyás I, Ulászló, Lajos II and the Habsburg emperors as kings of Hungary: Ferdinand, Miska and Rudolf. The composition of the hoard is incomplete, because six coins (one denar from Bella IV, one half-groschen and four weisspfennigs) seem to be modern intrusions. In this article, the catalog will be organized based on the coins issuers, and at the end of each chapter we will add brief notes regarding the mints, mint craftsmen, forgeries or hybrid coin editions that are different from the coins in the catalog. Besides the basic coin identification, we also used a indicative calculation of the contemporary value completed by an approximation of the exchange rates on the period of the accumulation and hiding of the hoard. The hoard is mainly composed by coins of small value, used in daily transactions, especially in rural areas and in conformity with the exchange rates the estimated value of the hoard ranges around the modest amount of 8-9 florini or roughly 13-15 talers.

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