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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 3323941, member: 89314&quot;]Thank you, [USER=73385]@tibor[/USER]. I have the Huszar book but, as you know, he only gives limited information on mintmarks.&nbsp; I liked your suggestions for BH and started searching for&nbsp; a Buda mintmaster of this period called Hans or Johannes. The marvels of the internet !&nbsp;&nbsp; I found a paper by GYÖNGYÖSSY MÁRTON in a Hungarian publication called BUDAPEST RÉGISÉGEI XLIX. 2016 on the internet with fortunately a German summary I could understand.&nbsp; Here is my translation in case you are interested:</p><p><br /></p><p>THE LAST YEARS OF MEDIEVAL COINING IN OFEN (apparently the German name for BUDA)</p><p><br /></p><p>The coinage stopped in Ofen for some years after the battle of Mohács.&nbsp; However, in 1529 the Hungarian Chamber concluded&nbsp; a contract with Hans Haller in which he was empowered to strike coins at Ofen in the name of Ferdinand I (1526-1564).</p><p>The mint was only in operation for a few months, striking denars with the mintmark</p><p>B-H (Buda-Haller).&nbsp; Haller fled before the troops of King Johann von Zapolya (János Szapolyai&nbsp; in Hungarian, 1526-1540) with his mint to Pressburg, where he continued his activities. He first struck denars with the mintmark B-H, later with P-H</p><p>(Pressburg-Haller).&nbsp; Zapolya, however,&nbsp; founded a new mint in Ofen which first struck silver denars with the mintmark A-B , later without a mintmark but decorated with the arms of the Gritti family. In those years the Treasurer Lodovico</p><p>Gritti was also responsible for the coinage. His local coins are the last medieval Hungarian money minted in Ofen.</p><p><br /></p><p>I apologise for breaking the theme of this thread but I thought this little discovery might be of interest to collectors of coinage of this period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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