Review article

The Patron Saints on the Coins on the Croatian Coast Before the Usage of the Turkish Money

Marko Medved ; Teologija u Rijeci - područni studij Katoličkog bogoslovnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Josip Selak ; Teologija u Rijeci - područni studij Katoličkog bogoslovnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

This article highlights the presence of the patron saints of the Croatian coastal cities in the high Middle Ages, before the appearance of the Turkish money. The goal of this contribution is to relate the Adriatic cities and their patron saints to other contemporary Italian or European cities, that produced similar coins, featuring patron saints.
A special attention is given to city-republic of Dubrovnik. The research is based on the works of the numismatic Božo Mimica. It was his idea, to extrapolate the Dalmatian cities with their patron saints from the entire numismatic corpus. The Croatian money, in respect to the other cities, appears relatively late, but its use relates these cities to the political, economic and cultural features of that times.

Keywords

numismatics; patron saints; Split; Šibenik; Trogir; Hvar; Zadar; Dubrovnik

Hrčak ID:

146920

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/146920

Publication date:

3.7.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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