I finally received my copy of Joe's volume III in
his series of books on
medieval Hungarian coins. I am now in the process of reviewing all of my coins that are within the scope of this volume, and revising the write-ups posted in my
Gallery.
In doing so, I am also including information from other recent books which were generally not yet published when the coins were acquired and posted, or which I did not yet have. There has been an explosion in recent years of books published on
medieval Hungarian coins. They include:
Catalog of Arpadian Coinage, volume I (2018), volume II (2018) and volume III (2020) by Csaba Toth and Josef Geza Kiss (
quadrans) in Hungarian and English
Silver Book, volume I (2019) and volume II (2020) by Andras Lengyel (in Hungarian)
Medieval Hungarian Coins and Medals 1000-1526 (2007) by Marton Gyongyossy and Heinz
Winter (in
German)
Hungarian Coin Catalog 997-1307 (2011) by Istvan Adamovsky (in Hungarian)
Medieval Coins of
Bohemia,
Hungary and
Poland (2015) by Jedrzej George
Frynas (in English)
The one book, or more accurately, series of books that is indispensable, both in terms of its detail and its general acceptance and usage, is Joe's series. But in my view, the more the merrier!
So far, using Joe's new book (and the others) I have only updated my
Album covering the
bracteates (just five coins, so it was easy):
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2253Before doing so, I updated my three earlier Albums to include the Lengyel book citations:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2244 (Earliest Arpads)
and
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2235 (Kalman/Coloman)
and
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2252 (12th Century)
I will soon begin updating the two other Albums covered by Joe's newest book:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2249 (Last Arpads)
and
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2251 (Arpadian-Angevin Interregnum)
It is a slow process so it will take a while. Thank you Joe (and thank Csaba Toth for me); I am enjoying this.
Stkp