Gold medal 5 CZK Kutná Hora 1996 Standard

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Kutná Hora Mint town

Rare gold medal 5 CZK issued in 1996 by the Czech Mint in 999,9 purity of the purest gold is dedicated to the mint town of Kutná Hora. These gold medals are rarely found and are therefore highly sought after by collectors and investors. The medal comes in a plastic gift case in a limited edition of only 500 pieces!

Kutná Hora

Kutná Hora (German: Kuttenberg) is a district town in the Central Bohemian Region and an important urban conservation area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2011 it had almost 21 thousand inhabitants.

As the name of the town suggests, its history is related to the mining ("smithing") of silver and silver ores. In the Middle Ages, at the end of the 13th century, the local area provided about one third of Europe's silver production.

It was probably also present on the surface in the area and silver denarii were minted as early as the 10th century at the nearby Slavník stronghold of Malín. Silver mining may also have been connected with the founding of a Cistercian monastery in neighbouring Sedlec, the first in Bohemia. The Sedlec monastery was founded in 1142 by Miroslav of Cimburk, a prominent courtier of Prince Vladislav II. The monastery was founded by the monks of Waldsassen in the Upper Palatinate, who belonged to a line of monks dedicated to mining. This might explain why - against the common practice of the order - it was founded in a landscape already settled and cultivated. The monastery owned the land on which the later town grew, as well as a number of villages in the surrounding area.

The nearby towns of Čáslav and Kolín were given the mining rights of Jihlava around 1260, probably because the townspeople in the area mined silver, and a little later the name of the settlement Antiqua Cuthna - Old Kutna, which was probably closer to the Sedlec monastery, also appears. The settlement may have disappeared during the wars of King Přemysl Otakar II with Rudolf Habsburg, who made peace with Ota Braniborsky in 1278 in Čáslav. At the beginning of the reign of King Wenceslas II, the "silver fever" broke out and thousands of people from far away moved here in search of wealth. This is probably how the mining settlement, Mons Cutna in Latin, was founded on the hill above the Vrchlice valley, with a very irregular plan that is still visible today. As late as 1289 the towns of Kolín and Čáslav were still in charge of the settlement, but from 1291 the town had its own court and royal mining office.