oa Swiss Coins in Circulation at the Imperial Court in Prague in the Early Seventeenth-Century

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From the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century, several types of Swiss silver coins became an important part of the money circulation in Bohemia. The influx of Swiss coins into this territory was considered by the-then domestic economists and politicians to be one of the reasons for the rapidly rising prices. However, the real reasons were different, related to the important role of the European financial center, which was represented by the Imperial Court in Prague. The author clarifies the role of Swiss coins in the Czech money circulation of the time. On the basis of written and material sources, it is possible to reconstruct the exact procedures by which the metrological quality of circulating Swiss coins was verified in Prague.