BOOK REVIEW: THE SILVER OF FAIRYLAND

My very good friend and fellow collector Balazs Csanady gave me a wonderful new book as a Christmas present, The Silver of Fairyland, a book on a 220 piece Transylvanian Thaler collection purchased by the Hungarian National Bank (Magyar Nemzeti Bank). It was published simultaneously in the Hungarian and English languages. It has 240 pages; Csaba Toth is the Editor in Chief.

It had been collected by three generations of the Toro family. It is a beautiful book. All 220 pieces are plated, and illustrations are on almost every page. Each Prince that issued coins in this collection has a full page picture. It states that a decision was to build the collection with die varieties, especially of the Princes that had longer reigns, and issued numerous varieties. An interesting history is given of the purchases through the years.

There are seven different chapters, each written by a different numismatist. One of them has thirteen pages of plates of 17th century coin dies from the Brasso (Kronstadt) mint.

For more information, see:
A Transylvanien Thaler Collection book " The Silver of Fairyland" (https://www.jofogas.hu/budapest/A_Transylvanien
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dave adds:

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