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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]