Bohemian Silver Mining Boom (1501–1510)

Name: Bohemian Silver Mining Boom (1501–1510)
Start: 1501
End: 1510

Type Event Region Europe Time 1501–1510

Between 1501 and 1510, Kutná Hora and Joachimsthal silver mines led Central Europe in output, supplying coinage silver to the Habsburg-ruled Holy Rom…

Timeline

1501–1505Kutná Hora · BohemiaBohemian King Vladislaus II reformed mining concessions and the 'mine burgher' system under Habsburg suzerainty; deep-shaft mining at Kutná Hora revived, and silver ingot output again became an important source for imperial coinage.
1505–1510Joachimsthal · BohemiaSilver output at the Joachimsthal mines kept rising; the Joachimsthaler silver coins produced by the local mint circulated widely in Central Europe, while Nuremberg and Augsburg merchants provided credit for mine equipment and amalgam smelting, forming an integrated production-minting-trade chain.

Sources

Money and the Early Modern Imagination: Literary, Political, and Economic Consequences — Stephen Deng (2011)
Central European History — Cambridge University Press (journal) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-history