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The documented three coins, until now unrecorded among the finds from the Hradiště near Stradonice, extend the range of Celtic coin types that were imported to this oppidum from the west. The first one, an unusual stater of the Kellner IB type, is important in the Czech area since most of the coins from the Regenbogen-Schusselchen group found at the Stradonice oppidum are subaerates. The second specimen, a quarter-quinar, probably belonging to the quinars of the so-called Prague type, is an extremely rare coin which can be classified as belonging to this group based on the image of a stylized horse on the reverse. These coins were probably brought to the Stradonice oppidum from the Thuringian area in present-day Germany. The third and last small silver coin of the 'mit strengem Gesicht' type represents a rather unique issue imported to the Czech territory from the area of southern Germany and, together with the above-mentioned coins, it attests to the trade contacts maintained by the population of the Hradiště oppidum with merchants from the territories of today's Germany from the middle of the 2nd to the middle of the 1st centuries B.C. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In 2010, an unusual contemporaiy forgery of the white coin struck under Ferdinand I (Fig. 1) was found to the east of the Klínec village (Praha-západ district). The coin was made of the copper sheet with a small lead additive and silver-plated using stiver amalgam. It copied the white coins produced in Silesian Breslau in 1558-1561 (Fig. 2). Relatively high quality of the die in combination with elementary mistakes in marginal legend is stunning. It is impossible to eliminate the fact that the forger used his closely unspecified contacts with an unknown die-engraving workshop which supplied the Breslau mint with dies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new unlisted variety of the white coin struck under Ferdinand I of Hahsburg is presented. The coin with its marginal legend can he typologically classified as a new variety of the V.a type. The specimen shows all typical features characteristic for the mentioned type: the so-called crawling lion and five-petalled flower at the beginning of the marginal legend. Based on the iconographical form of the lion, the coins of the type V. are attributed to the Breslau mint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]