750th anniversary of the ROYAL mining LAW – KUTNÁ HORA (UNESCO)
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP
symbolic
drawing – the mining code known as the „Ius regale montanorum“ was
drawn up in 1300 – 1305 on the instructions of King Wenceslas II of
Bohemia. For several centuries, this law was the most advanced legislation
on mining in almost any country in the world. Together with the enactment
of the royal mining law, a reform of coinage was carried out. Wenceslas II
introduced a single currency throughout his kingdom – the Prague
groschen. The Italian Court (Vlašský dvůr) in Kutná Hora became the
seat of the central mint, where all minting of these silver coins was
concentrated. Kutná Hora was the source of the wealth of the Czech lands
for three hundred years.
